FARM FEST 2025
Growing Common Ground
Saturday, September 20th | 2-6 pm

Farm Fest is a FREE community event held on-farm at KC Farm School’s 14.5-acre urban production and education farm in KCK. We are uniting for a day on-farm to GROW COMMON GROUND.
Let’s explore the land, make new friends, and build common ground in our community.
Farm Fest unites our wonderful Kansas City community by offering opportunities to have FUN, dance, play, and get hands-on to learn about local food, community resources, our environment, and ways to mobilize for community action.

Click here to learn about volunteer opportunities before and during Farm Fest.

FARM FEST Happenings

  • Emceed by the one and only fabulous ZEE UNDERSCORE, the main stage will feature live music all day.

    Nicolette Paige and Osezua will also be joining in the musical fun!

    Special guests will appear throughout the afternoon to discuss community, food, and farm topics.

    Please feel free to DANCE and sing along! Bring your DRUM and musical instruments too! Word is that there will be a community jam session to end the event!

  • Local growers, makers, dreamers, and doers will be present at Farm Fest to share their food, resources, goods, and art with you!

    Although all Farm Fest activities are free, we do suggest you bring some dollars to support local Kansas City and regional growers and entrepreneurs.

    Vendors include:

    Good Oak
    Suds Refillery
    Alba Laredo Ceramics
    Arise and Arise LLC
    Big Muddy Gear Exchange
    Boujee Hippie
    CBD American Shaman
    Creative Finding
    Glass Heart Homestead
    Grasshopper Urban Farm
    Harvest Moon Botanica
    Healthgod
    Hoagie Woolf’s Rubs & Spices
    Karl Clan Soaps
    Lemonade Llamas
    Likeable Sewing Threads
    Max's Kettle Korn
    Mirror Mirror Books KC
    Neptis Reggae Jamaican Food
    Oaka
    One of a Kind Jewelry by Alesia
    Paints, prints and peppers
    Pottery by Sharna
    Precious Petals & Pepper Berries
    Urban Farm
    Purple Onion Flour Shop
    Silver Heart Inn
    Smooth September LLC
    Stitching Change
    Sweet Life Wellness & Spa
    The Tamale Kitchen
    USA Duck Team
    Youthful Creations
    3Dia 3D Printing

  • Chef Erin Bassett joins us again this year to prepare a free community meal. Water will also be available. Grab a plate, have a seat, listen to some music, meet your neighbors and enjoy!

    You'll notice the dishwashing station and we do appreciate your help in cleaning up!

    You will also find food vendors at Farm Fest including The Tamale Kitchen, Neptis Reggae, and local bakers! Please support them as well!

  • Throughout the event there will be many opportunities to get hands-on doing, making and learning about local food, art, and farm stuff!

    BRING A T-SHIRT to tie-dye with Maria!

    Be ready to DANCE with Jenna!

    Bring your DRUM or musical instruments to join in a community jam session/drum circle at the end of the event!

    Thank you to sponsors MO HIVES and Evergy for bringing the learning to Farm Fest!

  • The south field of Common Ground will be FULL of fun and games for the whole family including a Bouncy House, Free Face Painting, Free pumpkins, Cardboard Village where you can engineer and imagine, Corn Seeding Fun, a Bike Maze, Obstacle Course, and more surprises!

    Thank you to sponsor It's a Party KC for bringing the fun!

  • Meet us at the Welcome Booth at 3:15 and 4:30 pm for a tour of our 14.5 acre space featuring Common Ground and Gibbs Road Farm.

    At the Welcome Table you can learn more about our programs, purchase some KC Farm School merch and shop our general store.

 Featured Farm Fest Market Vendors

 

Suds Refillery

Limit your household waste.

Suds Refillery is a bulk, natural, household goods retail shop that allows you to refill your own containers over and over, in an effort to reduce your single-use plastic consumption.

Learn more about them at their website.

Good Oak

Land management for good.

Ecological restoration, Regenerative farming & Long-term stewardship

At Farm Fest, they will have regeneratively raised meats, and some of their animals!

Learn more about them at their website.

 

 Community Resources at Farm Fest 2025

FARM FEST will feature many community resources. You can learn about simple things you can do to protect our environment, tour the KCK Fire Department fire truck, check out a library book from the KCK Public Library Bookmobile, get a $10 farmers market voucher and a free blood pressure screening, learn ways to protect our water, take a stroll underground in the soil trailer, learn more about KC Farm School and the KC F.A.R.M.E.R.S Coalition… and SO MUCH MORE!

 How to get to Farm Fest

The address of Common Ground is 2443 S. 42nd Street, KCKS, 66106.

Because FARM FEST is a BLOCK PARTY, the road will be closed between Gibbs and Dodson.
Navigate to Shawnee Drive and South 42nd St. and look for signs directing you to park at a nearby church parking lot or in our dear neighbor Charlie’s field.
It's a short walk up the hill to the entrance and we'll have shuttles to help you get to Farm Fest.

Please take a look at the map. It will guide you to FARM FEST.

 
 

Farm Agreements

We say hello to everyone we meet.
We ask questions if we do not know.
If we open it, we close it.
We conserve resources.
We take care.
Our pets are on a leash.
We do not smoke on the farm.
Please review our liability waiver before visiting the farm.

2025 Farm Fest Sponsors & Partners

SUPPORTING SPONSORS

 
 

pollinating sponsors