Build This Town: Campaign for the Agriculture Park

Build This Town: Campaign for the Agriculture Park The Friends of the Farm Partnership has formed to build an Agriculture Park at Clary-Shy Park in Columbia, Missouri.

02/06/2026

Join us on Saturdays at 10am in front of CCUA's Schoolhouse for hard hat tours of our future Community Welcome Center!

With a roof in place and brick being laid, our future Welcome Center is getting closer and closer to opening its doors! Hear from Gabe Huffington, Columbia Parks and Recreation Director, about the building's future Event Center and how it will serve as a hub for the entire Parkđź’š

Get involved at Buildthistown.org/ (đź”— in bio)

As always huge thank you to Bussen Productions for capturing the construction of this building!

12/10/2025

Approaching the end of 2025, it's incredible to think what 2026 will hold for Columbia's Agriculture Park. Next year, the Community Welcome Center will become a reality. This will greatly expand Columbia Farmers Market and Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture's programming, but we need YOUR help to make it happen!

Hear from Abbey Mitchell, proud CFM vendor and owner of Abbey’s Swahili Delights CoMo , on what the Community Welcome Center will mean for vendors like her.

Get involved at Buildthistown.org/

Huge thank you to Bussen Productions for capturing the construction of this building and all that it means for our community!

11/13/2025

Since 2019, Columbia’s Agriculture Park has built a year-round home for Columbia Farmers Market, installed beautiful demonstration gardens, a one-room schoolhouse, custom playground, a barn, and a greenhouse to grow food for local hunger relief, but we’re not done yet!

There is one more puzzle piece–the park’s Community Welcome Center. This new building will provide permanent space for Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture and Columbia Farmers Market, it will host space for educational programs in the kitchen, and it will provide affordable meeting space for community members in Columbia’s First Ward.

Follow along as we watch the Community Welcome Center come to life and learn what it means for our farmers, families, and future generations to come.

Get involved at Buildthistown.org/ (đź”— in bio)

Huge thank you to Bussen Productions for capturing the construction of this building and all that it means for our community!

Exciting News📣 We’re now vertical!! The foundation and slab for the new Community Welcome Center are in and cured! In th...
10/10/2025

Exciting News📣 We’re now vertical!!

The foundation and slab for the new Community Welcome Center are in and cured! In the weeks ahead we’ll see more and more steel up in the air, so come visit us Saturdays during Columbia Farmers Market to see this space transform!

Thank you to everyone who added their signature to our Community Welcome Center's future support beam! We loved celebrat...
09/10/2025

Thank you to everyone who added their signature to our Community Welcome Center's future support beam! We loved celebrating this milestone progress of this building togetherđź’™

This whole project is a result of the groundswell of support and interest in making our mid-Missouri food system more resilient and robust.

Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture, Columbia Farmers Market, and Parks & Rec are all honored and humbled to be a part of this project and grateful for the hundreds of donors who've helped make it happen. We've asked people to dig deep, and time and time again, the community has responded in a generous way. Thank you!

We need YOUR help to close out this last leg of the effort. Please consider making a MAJOR gift in 2025 and the years ahead to help this innovative and impactful project. Learn more at:
đź”— BuildThisTown.org đź”—

Missed the beam signing, but still want to add your name? There is still time! Email: [email protected]

06/17/2025

Construction starts THIS week🎉🙌🏼🚧

We have been planting these seeds for a long time- we are about to grow our very own Community Welcome Center at Columbia's Agriculture Park, and you can watch us every step of the way!

Construction on the new Welcome Center at Columbia's Agriculture Park kicks off in June, and the first signs of progress will be sprouting soon🌱 Keep your eyes peeled for caution tape and construction company signage as crews begin prepping the site.

Lettuce🥗 celebrate this exciting milestone together. The seeds of progress are finally bearing fruit — thanks for your patience as we grow something amazing!

Learn how you can be apart of this big and FINAL step at đź’š BuildThisTown.org đź’š

04/15/2025

In 2020, most of Columbia's Agriculture Park was sitting empty. Today, it boasts winding nature trails, thriving production fields, interactive garden space, a playground for our community, and an award winning Farmers Market. Our community invested in Columbia's Agriculture Park and there is one final piece to complete- The Community Welcome Center🥳

The Welcome Center is more than a building. It is the final step in making this park a resource for our community providing a commercial kitchen, resource library, event space, and free tool checkout. The exciting news? Construction bids are finally in, and we’ll be announcing the name of a contractor soon!

Join us on Saturday, May 3rd to learn more about $275,000 tax credits that are available from 8am-12pm and learn how you can be an integral part of this next big step for the park! We will be located under the carnival tent in the location of the Welcome Center at 1769 W Ash St.

Email CCUA's Development Manager, Rebecca Kerns at [email protected] to get all of your questions answered!

Let's Build This Town Togetherđź’š

86% of Boone Countians don’t eat 5 fruits and veggies a day.🍎🥕 By growing Columbia’s Agriculture Park you can help our c...
12/25/2023

86% of Boone Countians don’t eat 5 fruits and veggies a day.🍎🥕 By growing Columbia’s Agriculture Park you can help our community grow and become healthier. Help us by donating now at http://ed.gr/da6g8.

Like a big onion 🧅, Columbia’s Agriculture Park has lots of layers, each one helping our community access, sell, and eat...
12/18/2023

Like a big onion 🧅, Columbia’s Agriculture Park has lots of layers, each one helping our community access, sell, and eat healthy food. The park will impact everyone in our community. After all, everyone eats. 🍽️ Help us by donating now at http://ed.gr/da6i1.

Like a big onion 🧅, Columbia’s Agriculture Park has lots of layers, each one helping our community access, sell, and eat...
12/11/2023

Like a big onion 🧅, Columbia’s Agriculture Park has lots of layers, each one helping our community access, sell, and eat healthy food. The park will impact everyone in our community. After all, everyone eats. 🍽️ Help us by donating now at http://ed.gr/da6i2.

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1769 W Ash Street
Columbia, MO
65203

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(573) 356-9392

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