Growing health, one classroom at a time
Community Green Farms has been a 501(c)(3) nonprofit since 2022, building hydroponic classrooms across Southeast Kansas — turning schools and community spaces into working farms that put fresh food on the table and real skills in kids' hands.
Why we exist
Across Southeast Kansas, too many families live far from a reliable source of fresh, affordable food — closer to a highway exit than a produce aisle. Inadequate nutrition shapes health outcomes long before it shows up in a doctor's office, and it hits kids and working families hardest. That's the gap our mission was written to close.
Our mission is to improve the health of communities impacted by inadequate nutrition through hands-on education and innovative agricultural production. By focusing on nutrition education and providing partners with a source of fresh food, we are impacting the health and eating habits of entire communities.
How the model works
The same three-step cycle runs inside every farm we operate, whatever program it belongs to.
See our three programs- 01
Plant
We install a hydroponic grow system inside a school or community space in Southeast Kansas — no farmland required.
- 02
Grow
Students and neighbors tend the farm alongside our educators, learning agricultural science and nutrition hands-on.
- 03
Harvest
Fresh produce goes home in backpacks, into school cafeterias, and onto pantry shelves — grown by the people who eat it.
What we hold to
A handful of commitments that shape every farm, every partnership, and every dollar.
- Dignity
- Every program is built so people receive fresh food and real skills — not charity with a catch attached.
- Transparency
- We publish where the money goes and label every figure clearly, so you always know what we're aiming for and what we've delivered.
- Local roots
- Every farm we run sits inside a Southeast Kansas school or community space we already know, not a market we studied from a distance.
- Hands-on learning
- Kids and neighbors don't just receive food from us — they learn to grow it themselves, so the skill outlasts any one harvest.
Help us grow
Whether it's a gift or your time, there's a way to help that fits.