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- EIN 48-0897530
- 9350 E Corporate Hills Drive 78105 Wichita KS 67278-0010 USA
- https://kansasruralcenter.org
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Causes: Children & Youth, Environment, Food, Youth Development - Agricultural
Mission: The kansas rural center (krc) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that promotes the long-term health of the land and its people through research, education, and advocacy
Programs: The community food solutions project including the civic health for civic agriculture provided farmers, consumers, and the general public educational workshops, information and analysis of the food system - all geared toward incureasing production and availability of locally healthy food on kansas farms and kansas communitities. The linking experienced and beginning specialty crop growers to share information for successful operations project offered educational workshops, a community based learning circle, and profiles of successful specialty crop farms as an education. The general program also provides educational programs, materials and news and analysis via a quarterly newsletter, electronic newsletter and notices, regular news releases, and an annual conference on farm and food system policy, production practices and general sustainable agriculture and food system issues. Krc continued a research project into non-family farm transitions and land link programs to identify ways to help transitions and land link programs to identify ways to help transition farms to beginning farmers.