Food Hub in Kansas City

The Greater Kansas City Food Hub Working Group and the Douglas County Food Policy Council need your input as they work together to explore the feasibility of developing food hubs in the region.  The goals of any newly developed food hubs would be to increase farm revenue, expand the production of fresh local food, and support the vibrant communities and local economy in Kansas and Missouri.

Please complete this 20 minute survey to help these organizations understand your current growing practices, interest level in selling into a food hub, and concerns about wholesale operations.

Survey link:  https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/K9BGWLG

The survey will be available until January 17th, 2014.  To compensate you for your time in completing this survey, all survey respondents will receive a $15 coupon to Morgan County Seeds or Johnny's Select Seeds.

Your input is critical to determining whether or not the region should move forward with the development of foods hubs, and if so, what services and features the food hubs should offer.

Questions/concerns: Contact Emily Lucas (Local Project Coordinator for the Greater KC food hub feasibility study) at emiller@kchealthykids.org or Eileen Horn (Sustainability Coordinator for Douglas County/City of Lawrence) at ehorn@douglas-county.com."

For the Buyers survey the language is a little different as we are not compensating them for taking the survey:

"The Greater Kansas City Food Hub Working Group and the Douglas County Food Policy Council are working together to explore the feasibility of developing food hubs in the region. The goals of regional food hubs are to increase and improve the supply of regionally grown produce, meat, dairy, grains and other goods.

Please complete this 20 minute survey to help us learn about your current food purchasing practices and interest level in purchasing from a local food hub. The survey will be available until January 17th, 2014.

Survey link:  https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/K9H3YSV

Survey input is critical to determining whether or not the region should move forward with the development of foods hubs, and if so, what services and features the food hubs should offer.

Contact Emily Lucas (Local Project Coordinator for the Greater KC food hub feasibility study) at  or EileenHorn (Sustainability Coordinator for Douglas County/City of Lawrence).

For guidance on how far to reach out, our food hub group has defined local (loosely) as 250 miles from the hearty of Kansas City.