Pearly Gates Organic Soapery & HomesteaD
Farmer(s): Nancy Susan Gordon & Family
Location: Kansas City, MO 64133
Contact: [email protected], 816-353-3602
Facebook, Website: https://www.pearlygatessoap.com/index.html
Apprenticeship opportunities: Looking for 4 eager volunteer apprentices who want to learn.
Location: Kansas City, MO 64133
Contact: [email protected], 816-353-3602
Facebook, Website: https://www.pearlygatessoap.com/index.html
Apprenticeship opportunities: Looking for 4 eager volunteer apprentices who want to learn.
I teach a number of old-world, homesteading skills; lost arts & crafts eg, soap making ( solid, liquid, and cream soaps) body care ( salves, soufflés, scrubs, fizzies ), herbal and essential oil studies, foraging wild edibles, candle-making, old world quill sign painting, butter-making, hand sewing and decorative stitches, macramé, maple, and black walnut sugaring, starting plants from seed, plant propagating, seed collecting, composting, raising composting worms. canning, making kefir and kombucha drinks, baking, cooking from scratch, freezing, dehydrating. companion planting, cover cropping, orchard management, basic carpentry skills to make simple wooden garden structures,, beading, dyeing fabric, wood and rock carving, tie-dye, raising chickens and rabbits for manure, mural painting, wheel throwing and hand building in clay for your garden.
Our gardens focus on the 'Raw Food Diet & Lifestyle'; although many of our crops can be eaten cooked as well.
We market our produce, soaps, pottery, and “Complete Summer Mix Sampler Plant Flats for the Small urban gardener” which contains many different organic garden plants, through 117th Street Market in KC MO (Saturdays from May through October), and sell from our farm. We offer value-added CSA’s.
In 1984, we received an honorable mention in the 'Robert Rodale's Organic Gardening Magazine' for our gardens. In 2008, we won a sustainable agriculture research and education grant through SARE, a project titled "Incredible Crop Yields From Small Urban Spaces". This grant allowed us to build a cedar and recycled glass greenhouse, which we use to start our crops. We continue with our research, using Charles Wilber's organic extensive growing methods on our crops. In January 2021 I returned back to college for a ceramic degree, entrepreneurial, and Asia studies degree. In the fall of 2024, a ceramic studio is being added to our farm/soapery where we’ll be teaching and making lots of pottery for the herbs and plants we grow. We’ll be constructing a pond along with building a high tunnel in 2024, and a local artist is constructing an Adobe structure from the clay from our farm.
We are currently looking for volunteers to teach organic growing. In exchange for your work, you’ll receive fresh locally grown organic produce, soaps/bath care products made on our farm, pottery, or any additional lessons as a token of our gratitude. Our ever-expanding fruit & vegetable beds cover over a 1/2 acre. Additional Fruit, nut, and sugaring trees, and berry bushes, are scattered throughout our 1 1/2 acre lot. We specialize in rare heirloom fruiting and veggie varieties, leafy greens, herb plants; tropical fruits for your greenhouse or south window (papayas, citrus, and more) edible flowers; assorted micro greens; nutritional grasses for juicing; and more.
Our gardens focus on the 'Raw Food Diet & Lifestyle'; although many of our crops can be eaten cooked as well.
We market our produce, soaps, pottery, and “Complete Summer Mix Sampler Plant Flats for the Small urban gardener” which contains many different organic garden plants, through 117th Street Market in KC MO (Saturdays from May through October), and sell from our farm. We offer value-added CSA’s.
In 1984, we received an honorable mention in the 'Robert Rodale's Organic Gardening Magazine' for our gardens. In 2008, we won a sustainable agriculture research and education grant through SARE, a project titled "Incredible Crop Yields From Small Urban Spaces". This grant allowed us to build a cedar and recycled glass greenhouse, which we use to start our crops. We continue with our research, using Charles Wilber's organic extensive growing methods on our crops. In January 2021 I returned back to college for a ceramic degree, entrepreneurial, and Asia studies degree. In the fall of 2024, a ceramic studio is being added to our farm/soapery where we’ll be teaching and making lots of pottery for the herbs and plants we grow. We’ll be constructing a pond along with building a high tunnel in 2024, and a local artist is constructing an Adobe structure from the clay from our farm.
We are currently looking for volunteers to teach organic growing. In exchange for your work, you’ll receive fresh locally grown organic produce, soaps/bath care products made on our farm, pottery, or any additional lessons as a token of our gratitude. Our ever-expanding fruit & vegetable beds cover over a 1/2 acre. Additional Fruit, nut, and sugaring trees, and berry bushes, are scattered throughout our 1 1/2 acre lot. We specialize in rare heirloom fruiting and veggie varieties, leafy greens, herb plants; tropical fruits for your greenhouse or south window (papayas, citrus, and more) edible flowers; assorted micro greens; nutritional grasses for juicing; and more.
Photo Credits: Pearly Gates Organic Soapery Facebook
