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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Lionberry 's Weekly Delusion and Re-illusion Update.

People act like small batch is a hobby.

Nope.

Every bottle from a small farmer is a value-added product inside a value food chain.

That chain is made of humans, not container ships.

If global trade gets tariffed to death, or the truckers strike, or a war kicks off, or a fuel shortage hits, or a natural disaster…guess what?

Walmart will not be driving to Thailand for pineapple juice.

Local food is the only thing that can actually disrupt the global supply chain — in a good way.

And here’s the delusion:

Everyone thinks “we’ll connect with the local farmers when we need them.”

Nope.

If the shelves go empty, it’s already too late.

Now is the time to get the relationships built. The value chain in motion. 

Now is the time to slot locals in the stores — even if it’s as “novelty items” at first on a local farm shelf.

Because when the global pipeline hiccups?

The people who will actually feed your region

aren’t the ones with the biggest warehouses.

Shop local or… we’ll be learning how to season cardboard and call it rustic.