Common Ground Producers and Growers

What they do

African-American urban-farm-rooted mobile market and food hub serving central Kansas. The organization grew from a 54-year urban-family-farm tradition in Wichita, KS; the mobile market and food hub arm has operated since 2014, distributing [[fresh-produce|fresh produce]] from local chemical-free farms (no herbicides, no pesticides) into food-insecurity areas and [[food-deserts|food deserts]] across a twelve-county central-Kansas service region. Currently serves 28 senior and multi-resident housing locations and distributes more than 15,000 pounds of fresh produce annually.

Organizational motto: “All are fed. No one is hungry!”

Why it’s listed

Three intersecting filters: BIPOC-led (African-American urban-farm origin and ongoing leadership), food-justice [[mission-district-sf|mission]] targeting food deserts and food-insecurity areas (28 housing-site delivery points, not just [[a-market|a market]] for whoever can find it), and chemical-free supply standards (no herbicides, no pesticides across the producer network). The mobile-market structure is the substrate-building piece: instead of waiting for residents to reach a farmers market, the food comes to them at housing complexes and senior facilities. Kansas State Research and Extension and the Sunflower Foundation have documented the organization’s impact at the state level.

See also

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• Instance of: [[food-hub]]
• Shares approach with: [[indigenous-foodways]]
• Member of: [[organization]]
• Practices: [[food-sovereignty]]

Sources

• Common Ground Producers and Growers
• ICT Food Circle profile
• Kansas State Research and Extension profile (2018)
• [[sunflower|Sunflower]] Foundation case study (2024)
• OpenStreetMap

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