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Shop Kansas Farms Continues Growing with Regional Food Hubs

Oct 22, 2025

By Border Queen Harvest Hub

Launched by Kansas Farm Bureau member Rick McNary as a Facebook page during the COVID-19 pandemic, Shop Kansas Farms continues to grow, with a goal now of developing regional food systems.

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McNary started Shop Kansas Farms in 2020 to help farmers who had lost their traditional markets due to COVID-19-related school, university, restaurant and hotel closures. He was also looking to provide a farm-to-fork connection for consumers hungry for local farm products, especially in areas where shoppers faced empty grocery store meat counters. In 2022, Kansas Farm Bureau purchased Shop Kansas Farms, with McNary still very much involved, and is expanding the program to include regional food systems that encompass the production, processing and distribution of food products in a local area. These “Harvest Hubs” involve entire communities including farmers, processors, distributors, retailers and consumers.

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In 2023, a meeting between staff from Shop Kansas Farms and the Patterson Family Foundation resulted in a nearly $300,000 grant from the foundation, allowing Shop Kansas Farms to create its first Harvest Hub. The grant provided funding for a website, an executive director and two years of consultation from Kansas Farm Bureau and Shop Kansas Farms. The money also allows the hub to host monthly regional town halls.

Understanding the importance of community support for the first hub, Shop Kansas Farms early on sought out community leaders and engaged with the Sumner County economic development director and the county commissioners. The commissioners’ endorsement of the idea came with funding for a part-time staffer to help build the hub’s contact resource management system.

Since most of the hub’s biggest supporters were located in the city of Caldwell, nicknamed the “Border Queen” for its proximity to the Oklahoma border, the hub was named the Border Queen Harvest Hub. Continue Reading





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