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LionBerry Regenerative™ at Stems: A Garden Soirée

LionBerry Regenerative™ at Stems: A Garden Soirée

LionBerry Regenerative™ at Stems: A Garden Soirée

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Overland Park Arboretum & Botanical Gardens • May 16, 2026

Nature that Nurtures. Grown feral from the ground for a clean label.

LionBerry Regenerative™ is honored to be pouring at Stems: A Garden Soirée — A Cause to Celebrate, the signature fundraiser supporting the The Arts & Recreation Foundation of Overland Park and the Overland Park Arboretum & Botanical Gardens.

Join us for an unforgettable spring evening surrounded by peak blooms, live music, botanical beverages, artful experiences, and enchanting garden moments — all while supporting a beautiful community cause.

A Night in the Gardens, A Gift to the Community

Guests will enjoy an all-inclusive evening featuring:

  • Exceptional food from dozens of Kansas City favorites

  • Craft cocktails, mocktails, wine, beer, and botanical beverages

  • Live music and immersive garden experiences

  • Art installations and fireworks throughout the evening

  • Recovery hydration drinks and mocktails from LionBerry Regenerative™

We’ll be serving our farm-grown LionBerry Regenerative™ Hydration recovery mocktail — built from the ground up with ingredients rooted in regenerative agriculture and soil health.

Featured Ingredients

  • Elderberry

  • Elderflower

  • Butterfly Pea Flower

  • Lion’s Mane Mushroom

  • Tart Cherry

  • Local Apple

  • Local Honey

  • Lemon

  • Meyer Lemon

What We’ll Be Pouring

LionBerry Regenerative™ Hydration

Elderberry Sips

Lion’s Mane Mushroom Tinctures

Food is medicine — while sustaining soil health.

Building the Heartland American Elderberry Collaborative

LionBerry Regenerative™ is proud to be helping build the Heartland American Elderberry Collaborative — the first AgriCluster of its kind in the Midwest.

This growing elderberry network brings together regional farmers and producers to:

  • Share agricultural resources

  • Strengthen regional farming systems

  • Support regenerative agriculture

  • Educate consumers from soil to shelf

Joining LionBerry Regenerative™ for Sampling

  • Wild Ivy Farms

  • FairShare Farms

Meet Our Extended Elderberry Network

  • Casa Summerset

  • Good Oaks

  • Fossil Winery

  • Fyler Farms

  • Regional elderberry growers throughout the Heartland

Event Details

Saturday, May 16, 2026

Overland Park Arboretum & Botanical Gardens

8909 W. 179th St.
Overland Park, KS 66013

VIP Patron Entry: 6:00 PM
General Admission: 7:00 PM

  • All food, drink, and entertainment included

  • Must be 21+ to attend

Learn More

Presented in support of the The Arts & Recreation Foundation of Overland Park

P.O. Box 26392
Overland Park, KS 66225

Visit:
https://artsandrec-op.org/

To register for this event please visit the following URL: https://artsandrec-op.org/the-arts-recreation-foundation-of-overland-park/stems/ →

 

Date And Time

05-16-2026 @ 07:00 PM to
05-16-2026

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Fortifying the Heartland: My Christmas Wish for Hy-Vee.

Lionberry 's Weekly Delusion and Re-illusion Update.

This week’s delusion is pretending our grocery stores don’t have a weak point.

This week’s re-illusion is remembering that strength comes from building on what already works, not acting like we’re starting from scratch.

Hy-Vee does a really good job bringing in local barbecue sauces, jams, honey, and other value-added foods from the Heartland.

We’re not starting from zero.

But we are starting from small.

So I handed Santa a LionBerry and gave him my Christmas list:

A fortified Hy-Vee — one that expands the Heartland section that already exists into a full, accessible, stocked-every-day aisle for local foods.

Not to replace the global or national imports like Florida oranges, California almonds, Mexico avocados, pineapple juice from Thailand, or coastal produce —

but to stand beside them, so the region isn’t left vulnerable the next time anything shakes the system:

  • fuel shortages
  • war
  • trucking strikes
  • geopolitics
  • water shortages
  • drought or dust-bowl conditions
  • port disruptions
  • cyber hits
  • natural disasters

Any one of these can break a supply chain.

A fortified regional shelf — built from the farms around Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska — keeps us fed.

The World Cup is coming to Kansas City.

Soccer tourists from Germany, Brazil, Japan, everywhere — living in Airbnbs for three to six weeks, shopping at Hy-Vee for everything from breakfast to body soap.

If we went to Germany, we’d want Wienerschnitzel.

If we went to Brazil, we’d want feijoada.

If we went to Japan, we’d want ramen or sushi that actually tastes like Japan.

So when they come to the Heartland, they don’t want a New York hot dog or a California cheeseburger.

They want us — the real Midwest.

What do we grow and make here?

  • local barbecue sauces
  • local fruit like blueberries
  • corn tortillas, tomato sauces, and beans
  • wheat pastas and breads
  • value-added soaps made from beef tallow
  • local meat, dairy, and eggs
  • elderberry drinks

And soccer tourists staying in AirBnB’s need actual essentials:

  • dish soap
  • cleaning agents
  • body soap and hygiene products
  • breakfast foods
  • snacks
  • drinks
  • basics
  • dinners

This is exactly why a stronger Heartland aisle matters — not just for crisis, but for culture, tourism, and everyday life.

This week’s delusion is pretending our grocery stores don’t have a weak point.
This week’s re-illusion is remembering that strength comes from building on what already works, not acting like we’re starting from scratch.

Hy-Vee does a really good job bringing in local barbecue sauces, jams, honey, and other value-added foods from the Heartland.
We’re not starting from zero.
But we are starting from small.

So I handed Santa a LionBerry and gave him my Christmas list:

A fortified Hy-Vee — one that expands the Heartland section that already exists into a full, accessible, stocked-every-day aisle for local foods.

Not to replace the global or national imports like Florida oranges, California almonds, Mexico avocados, pineapple juice from Thailand, or coastal produce —
but to stand beside them, so the region isn’t left vulnerable the next time anything shakes the system:

  • fuel shortages
  • war
  • trucking strikes
  • geopolitics
  • water shortages
  • drought or dust-bowl conditions
  • port disruptions
  • cyber hits
  • natural disasters

Any one of these can break a supply chain.
A fortified regional shelf — built from the farms around Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska — keeps us fed.

The World Cup is coming to Kansas City.
Soccer tourists from Germany, Brazil, Japan, everywhere — living in Airbnbs for three to six weeks, shopping at Hy-Vee for everything from breakfast to body soap.

If we went to Germany, we’d want Wienerschnitzel.
If we went to Brazil, we’d want feijoada.
If we went to Japan, we’d want ramen or sushi that actually tastes like Japan.

So when they come to the Heartland, they don’t want a New York hot dog or a California cheeseburger.
They want us — the real Midwest.

What do we grow and make here?

  • local barbecue sauces
  • local fruit like blueberries
  • corn tortillas, tomato sauces, and beans
  • wheat pastas and breads
  • value-added soaps made from beef tallow
  • local meat, dairy, and eggs
  • elderberry drinks

And soccer tourists staying in Airbnbs need actual essentials:

  • dish soap
  • cleaning agents
  • body soap and hygiene products
  • breakfast foods
  • snacks
  • drinks
  • basics
  • dinners

This is exactly why a stronger Heartland aisle matters — not just for crisis, but for culture, tourism, and everyday life.

A shared warehouse, a shared distributor, and a unified block of local makers would let regional foods move with the same efficiency as national brands — while staying rooted right here.

Tourists will buy it.
Locals will keep it.
And if anything ever shakes the world, a fortified Hy-Vee keeps the Heartland standing.

That’s what I told Santa.
That’s my wish this year.
And that’s exactly what LionBerry is built to help do — bottle by bottle, aisle by aisle.