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Our Mission
To empower and inspire low-income households, community groups, and schools in the Kansas City Metropolitan area to grow their own vegetables and fruit.
Who WE are
KCCG is a non-profit membership organization that helps people grow vegetables and fruit from garden plots and orchards located in backyards, schoolyards, vacant lots and community sites.
What WE Offer
KCCG offers low-cost seed and plant varieties chosen to thrive in the Kansas City climate along with garden resources, free educational workshops and technical assistance… all to help your garden and orchard thrive!
How We Help
Gardening is a sustainable way to stretch your grocery budget and eat more healthy, fresh foods. Our programs are here to make it affordable and accessible to anyone – from individual gardeners to schools and community groups – who is ready to roll up their sleeves and dig in!
Community Impact
Making Healthy
Food Affordable
In 2025, KCCG provided low-cost resources, education, and free technical support to:
• 3,433 home gardeners
• 330 community gardens, and
• 257 neighborhood orchards.
Gardeners reported:
• 93% had successful harvests
• 92% ate more fresh food
• 96% stayed more active
Inspiring Kids
To Make
Healthy Choices
KCCG now supports 241 school gardens and 42 school orchards, reaching more than 20,000 students!
Our Beanstalk Children’s Garden and Orchard welcomed more than 2,420
visitors for tours and Scout Badge Workshops in 2025.
Equipping & Empowering Gardeners
In 2025, KCCG staff and volunteers:
• Cultivated nearly 200,00 vegetable and herb seedlings
• Prepared 52,000 seed packets
• Delivered 53 free educational workshops
Growing a Return on Your Investment
In 2025, KCCG invested a budget of $1.5 million in its programming.
In return, gardeners harvested an estimated $6.5 million of veggies and organic fruit.
That’s a 6-fold return on dollars alone –
and doesn’t even begin to count the value of improved health and community cohesion.
The Bottom Line
With a staff of 20, KCCG helped to put healthy food on the tables of more than 44,000 households who harvested directly from a garden or orchard site in 2025 and thousands more who received garden-grown food from local pantries.
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Call us at 816.831.9877
Email us at contact{at}kccg.org