Lawrence Kansas

Is there anyone in Lawrence Kansas? I am a Baker who would like to get into hydroponics framing to live off that and sell bread and food at farmers market for income to put back into the house. Im new and this is my first post so if this is lacking info sorry about that.

Hi Harold,

Welcome to Permies.

There's a big community of permaculture folks in KC. Our group ranges all the way from Tonganoxie KS to independence, MO and far north up to st Jo as well.

I've got some hydro experience myself.

K Wagner wrote:There's a big community of permaculture folks in KC. Our group ranges all the way from Tonganoxie KS to independence, MO and far north up to st Jo as well.

I've got some hydro experience myself.

How do I go about finding it? Is it on Facebook? Or do I just have to travel?

I live about an hour from Lawrence and like their scene. You might network with the Kansas Permaculture Institute based there: https://www.kansaspermaculture.org/
And there's also the Lawrence Fruit Tree Project that I believe is Permaculture based: https://www.sunriseprojectks.org/lawrencefruittreeproject

Harold Hicks wrote:Is there anyone in Lawrence Kansas? I am a Baker who would like to get into hydroponics framing to live off that and sell bread and food at farmers market for income to put back into the house. Im new and this is my first post so if this is lacking info sorry about that.

I am about three hours south of Lawrence Kansas. What do you plan on growing in your hydroponic farm?

T Blankinship wrote:

Harold Hicks wrote:Is there anyone in Lawrence Kansas? I am a Baker who would like to get into hydroponics framing to live off that and sell bread and food at farmers market for income to put back into the house. Im new and this is my first post so if this is lacking info sorry about that.

I am about three hours south of Lawrence Kansas. What do you plan on growing in your hydroponic farm?

Tomatoes, Ginger, Green beans, Squash, Cucumbe, basic greens, Also wanted to try Mushrooms and build a house about earth lvl to build a natural heater and bake bread to sell at the farmers markets.

We are here in lawrence!  We would love to meetup, the farmers market are a great place to start. Hyvee is also very open to local farmers from our experience.

Harold Hicks wrote:
Tomatoes, Ginger, Green beans, Squash, Cucumbe, basic greens, Also wanted to try Mushrooms and build a house about earth lvl to build a natural heater and bake bread to sell at the farmers markets.

Have you looked into building a Rocket Mass Heater?
Or a Rocket Oven to cook bread?

T Blankinship wrote:

Harold Hicks wrote:
Tomatoes, Ginger, Green beans, Squash, Cucumbe, basic greens, Also wanted to try Mushrooms and build a house about earth lvl to build a natural heater and bake bread to sell at the farmers markets.

Have you looked into building a Rocket Mass Heater?
Or a Rocket Oven to cook bread?

I was just going to make s brick oven.

Hi,
There is some learning curve in hydroponics, but nothing you can'h master in one year. Just start small.
The most important thing you need to know in order to not loose money is that instead of buying $$$ specialized equipment you can usually use cheap common purpose one.
I had to use all self control I could to avoid buying that staff

Good luck.