A Kansas City movement for food, health, and belonging.
Global One Urban Farming is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that grows, teaches, and gives away food across Kansas City. Since 2014 we've turned dozens of vacant lots into working farms and community classrooms.
Health equity, one harvest at a time.
Our mission is to end food insecurity in Kansas City by growing food where it's needed, teaching agriculture as a life skill, and building the community infrastructure to sustain both.
Our vision is a Kansas City where every neighborhood has the land, knowledge, and network it needs to feed itself.
How we got here.
- 2013–2018
Greenhouse Education at ACCPA
Hands-on greenhouse education at the George Washington Carver Greenhouse, teaching Pre-K through fifth-grade students the full growing process under the leadership of Dr. Poke.
- 2016
The Seed Was Planted
Global One Urban Farming is founded to provide fresh food access in a USDA-defined food desert while teaching sustainable growing practices.
- 2018–2020
School Garden Clubs at Kauffman
Urban Gardening Clubs launch at Ewing Marion Kauffman School — greenhouse growing, container gardening with grow lights, and outdoor organic gardening.
- 2019–2021
1.5 Acres on Cypress Avenue
Newly purchased land at 4409 Cypress Ave becomes the main farm site, expanding seed-to-harvest education in indoor and outdoor gardens.
- 2020–2021
KIPP Academy Garden Club
A year-round partnership with KIPP Academy brings container gardening, plant production, and student take-home harvests.
- 2023–Present
Teaching in Food Desert Communities
Garden clubs and workshops continue across Kansas City's urban core, with students growing, cooking, and presenting their work to families and teachers.
- 2025
Hamer Free Food Box Program
Global One joins four other Black-led KC farms supplying free produce boxes to East Side households after the Sun Fresh Linwood closure.
The people behind the work.
Board of Directors
Recognized by leaders in food, health, and civic life.
Join us in this next chapter.
Whether you volunteer, donate, or partner, you're joining a network of thousands rebuilding Kansas City's food system.