Kansas City Community Gardens

Name

Kansas City Community Gardens

Legal name

Kansas City Community Gardens

Website

https://kccg.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1980

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Community Gardening Services

NAICS

Soil Preparation, Planting, and Cultivating (115112), Support Activities for Crop Production (1151)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600), Services-Educational Services (8200), Agricultural Services (700)

akta.pro primary industry

Natural/Organic Food Co-ops & Community Natural Grocers (CRAHAEAJ)

akta.pro secondary industry

Community Service & Service-Learning Programs (School-Run) (EDAJAJAI)

Keywords

• Community gardening services
• Urban agriculture programs
• Garden education workshops
• Seed plant distribution
• Nonprofit food access

Headquarters

HQ city

Kansas City

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Membership Fees: Income-based sliding scale membership fees providing access to seeds, plants, tilling services, and garden supplies. Members pay as little as $25 per year for low-income families, who can grow produce valued at more than $600.
2. Seed and Plant Store Sales: Sale of vegetable seeds, herb seeds, warm/cool season plants, fruit trees, berry plants, and gardening supplies to members and the public.
3. Donations and Grants: Charitable contributions from donors and grant funding to support programming. The organization reported a 2025 budget of $1.5 million invested in programming.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

KCCG is a non-profit membership organization that helps people grow vegetables and fruit from garden plots and orchards in backyards, schoolyards, vacant lots, and community sites across the Kansas City metropolitan area. It provides low-cost seed and plant varieties chosen for the Kansas City climate, garden resources, free educational workshops, and technical assistance on a sliding income-based fee scale. It also operates a retail store selling plants, seeds, fruit trees, berry plants, and gardening supplies, plus specialized programs for schools, community partners, and children.

Product overview

KCCG is a non-profit membership organization that operates as a unified program portfolio centered on enabling community food production. Their core offerings include Individual & Family Gardening (with access to eight rental plot gardens), Community Partner Gardens, Schoolyard Gardens, the Beanstalk Children's Garden, and Giving Grove Orchards. Complementary to these programs, KCCG operates a retail store selling Plants (cool season, herbs, warm season, pollinators/cannas/specialty), Seeds (cool season, herbs, warm season, unique/fun, flowers), Fruit Trees & Berry Plants, Garlic, Sweet Potatoes, Asparagus/Leeks/Onions/Potatoes/Shallots, and Gardening Supplies. Educational resources include the annual Seeder's Digest publication, How To Videos covering cooking and gardening topics, guide sheets for vegetables, fruits, and general gardening, plus free workshops and technical assistance. All offerings are designed to make gardening affordable and accessible to low-income households, community groups, and schools in the Kansas City Metropolitan area.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Beanstalk Children's Garden and Orchard: Hands-on learning environment for children featuring nutrition and environmental education within a vibrant urban garden setting. Also serves as a living showcase of Kansas City Community Gardens' seed and plant offerings.
• Giving Grove Orchards

Products and services

• Individual & Family Gardening Helps community members grow gardens at their homes or at one of eight KCCG-managed rental plot gardens; provides seeds, plants, tilling, and garden supplies on a sliding, income-based fee scale. Targeted at individual gardeners and families.
• Community Partner Gardens Collaborates with neighborhood associations, service agencies, faith communities, health facilities, housing complexes, and other partners to build and sustain food-producing gardens on their sites. KCCG supplies plants, seeds, supplies, training, and ongoing technical support.
• Schoolyard Gardens Partners with local schools and districts to establish learning gardens on school grounds, equipped with training and resources to engage students in all parts of the growing cycle. Reached 20,000+ students in 2025.
• Beanstalk Children's Garden Inspires hands-on learning in nutrition and environmental education for children within a vibrant urban garden setting, also serving as a living showcase of KCCG's seed and plant offerings. Welcomes visitors for tours and Scout Badge Workshops.
• Giving Grove Orchards Empowers community volunteers to grow healthy food and enhance their neighborhoods' environments by establishing and maintaining fruit-bearing orchards. Supported 257 orchards and 240,000+ Kansas City residents live within walking distance of a neighborhood orchard.
• Rent A Plot
• Plants (retail)
• Seeds (retail)
• Fruit Trees & Berry Plants (retail)
• Gardening Supplies (retail)
• 2026 Seeder's Digest Annual publication providing gardening guidance, planting schedules, and growing information for Kansas City gardeners. Available as a free PDF.
• How To Videos

Quantifiable outcome

• 93% of participants grew successful gardens
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Has API

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Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• KC ParkscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerKCCG partners with KC Parks for park-based garden locations and programs, as evidenced by the KC Parks logo appearing on KCCG's website footer.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• FoodCorps: Nonprofit connecting kids to healthy food in schools, including school garden programming; comparable in target audience (K-12 students), funding model, and curriculum-driven intervention.
• Real School Gardens: Nonprofit creating learning gardens in underserved elementary schools with teacher training and curriculum integration; closely overlaps KCCG's schoolyard gardens program.
• Edible Schoolyard Project: Founded by Alice Waters to integrate organic gardening into school curricula; highly comparable in school-based garden education and nutrition outcomes.
• Green Bronx Machine: Urban agriculture and school garden nonprofit operating in food-insecure neighborhoods; comparable community-food-access and school-garden intervention model.
• The Giving Grove: National network of community orchards that KCCG already partners with to sustain 257 neighborhood orchards; highly comparable in orchard-establishment mission and volunteer model.
• Big Green: National nonprofit that builds learning gardens in schools and provides garden-based education; closely aligned with KCCG's schoolyard gardens mission and member-education model.

Broad incumbents

• Whole Kids Foundation: Whole Foods-affiliated nonprofit funding school gardens and salad bars nationwide; comparable as a broader, well-funded funder of school garden programs.
• Captain Planet Foundation: Environmental education nonprofit funding school and community garden projects nationwide; comparable as a broader garden-grant funder with similar youth-environmental focus.
• Wholesome Wave: National nonprofit addressing food affordability through farmers markets and produce-prescription programs; comparable in low-income food access mission and donor-funded model.

Regional players

• Cultivate KC: Kansas City-area nonprofit advancing urban agriculture and local food systems; directly comparable regional peer addressing the same KC food-access problem.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/c/KansasCityCommunityGardens
• Facebookfacebook.com/KansasCityCommunityGardens
• Instagraminstagram.com/kccommunitygardens
• TikToktiktok.com/@kccommunitygardens
• Xx.com/KC_Gardens
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/kansas-city-community-gardens

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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