Sunny Acres grows all of their crops without the use of chemically-synthesized pesticides and…read morefertilizers. Strawberries from Sunny Acres are amazing! How it works: Customers purchase a subscription - a share of the farm's produce. Then, throughout the season, the member routinely picks up a share of the farm's production.

I drove some extra miles to get peaches this year. The place that is closer gave me almost an…read moreentire peck that was rotten! It starts with a "P" so you will know where to avoid. But Schreiman Orchards had really good peaches that were a few dollars more. If you love peaches as much as I do then the drive is worth it. They also have many other products for sale.

I'm not going to candy coat this - I know Justin Bieber got his peaches down in Georgia, but the…read morebest peaches on the planet are in Waverly, MO at Schreiman Orchards! About an hour and a half outside of Kansas City, these peaches are well worth the drive. They sell about ten different varieties of peaches, but my favorites by far are the July Prince. These juicy sweet babies will have you drooling and slurping like a fool, saying dad stuff like, "that's a damn good peach!" They sell so much more fresh farm goodness like apples, watermelon, cantaloupe, plums, nectarines, bing cherries, homegrown tomatoes, sweet corn, blackberries, blueberries and more. But, I'm not here to talk about all that - this about the peaches ladies and gentlemen, stay with me! This is the important part - the best time for peaches is end of July through August, so stop watching murder porn on Discovery+, get off your couch and in to your car to make the drive before they sell out. You're about to find out what Justin, me and so many other people already know... peaches are the bomb! I promise you'll be singing, "I got my peaches out in Waverly (Oh, yeah, shit)..." all the way home!

This is the spot of the farm for the Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture, whose office is…read moreactually at 214 Saint Joseph St. So it's where the dirt is. Literally and figuratively. On Mon/Wed/Fri they have a vegetable sale, 4-8ish, or until they run out. They have herbs, squash, greens, etc. And it's cheap. They even take EBT. The farm also has chickens on site, and they occasionally give classes, recently (summer 2010) they had a demonstration for culling chickens. Not for the urban squeamish. There is also a lot of composting going on, and they have that worm-composting, too, and classes on all of this stuff. I like this place, because the only other farmer's markets are way outside of downtown, and since I live downtown I can actually walk to this one in 15 minutes. The folks are nice as can be, and it's a great resource for us city folks to learn more about where our food may come from, how it goes from manure to our plate (sorry for the imagary there...),