The Kaw Valley Farm Tour brings families face-to-face with local agriculture—no boots required

Photo courtesy of Eat8Flowers and Overland Park Farmers Market.

Farm to table doesn’t get more real than coming face to face with a pig or touching some basil while it’s still growing. The Kaw Valley Farm Tour offers these kinds of experiences at local farms from here to Topeka. Each year, the tour runs during the first weekend in October. For $15 per car,… Continue reading The Kaw Valley Farm Tour brings families face-to-face with local agriculture—no boots required

Inside the global sourcing game behind Shang Tea and Hugo Tea Company, the KC businesses betting on farm ownership for better brews

Photo courtesy of Shang Tea.

It’s easy to take tea for granted. It can be found almost anywhere, from self-serve dispensers at your local gas station market to canned versions lining grocery store shelves. But to tea connoisseurs there’s a definite art to brewing tea and drinking it, and it starts with the leaves. According to two high-end KC-based tea… Continue reading Inside the global sourcing game behind Shang Tea and Hugo Tea Company, the KC businesses betting on farm ownership for better brews