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The 2026 KC Metaphysical 

The 2026 KC Metaphysical 

The 2026 KC Metaphysical 

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The 2026 KC Metaphysical Fair will take place on March 13-14-15, 2026, at 

Harrah’s Kansas City Casino & Hotel. 

Join us for three big days of FUN at Spring KC Metaphysical! Our exhibitors will include vendors, psychics, artists and holistic wellness practitioners. Our legendary FREE hourly lectures are held all three days of our Fair and are included with your Fair admission. Single-day general admission tickets are just $9 with kids under 11 enjoying free Fair admission when they accompany an adult ticket holder. Our three-day VIP pass will be available exclusively on Friday March 13th and includes admission to all three days of our Fair, plus a swag bag with some nice treats inside, plus entry into twice as many hourly prize drawings, for only $22. All tickets are sold at the entrance to our Fair, during Fair hours. As always, our Fair will be a friendly, inclusive space with a positive community vibe. Save the dates, invite your friends + family, and come out to Spring KC Metaphysical on March 13-14-15!

  • Location: Harrah’s Kansas City Casino & Hotel, 1 Riverboat Dr, North Kansas City, MO 64116.

  • Dates & Times:

    • Friday, March 13: 2 pm – 9 pm

    • Saturday, March 14: 10 am – 8 pm

    • Sunday, March 15: 11 am – 6 pm

  • Admission: Tickets are sold at the fair entrance on the day of the event. Single-day admission is typically around $9 (based on prior events), with kids 10 and under free. Volunteers can receive free admission for the whole weekend. 

Fair Highlights

  • Exhibitors: The event will feature a wide range of exhibitors, including vendors, psychics, artists, and holistic wellness practitioners. Offerings often include crystals, tarot readings, aura photography, energy work, jewelry, and more.

  • Lectures & Prizes: Admission includes access to free hourly lectures and prize drawings held throughout the three days.

  • More Information: For the most up-to-date exhibitor and lecture schedules, you should check the official website closer to the event date. 

The event is known as the longest-running metaphysical event in Kansas City and provides a space for exploring the mind, body, and spirit. 

To register for this event please visit the following URL: https://kcmetaphysical.com/ →

 

Date And Time

03-13-2026 @ 02:00 PM to
03-15-2026 @ 06:00 PM

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Presentation at the Great Plains Growers Conference

Lionberry 's Weekly Delusion and Re-illusion Update.

Heartland Elderberry Collaborative (Heartland ECo)


“Instead of asking each farm to grow bigger, we’re building shared capacity so farms can stay viable at their current scale while accessing value-added markets.”

An AgriCluster Pilot for Shared Infrastructure and Value-Added Market Access
Eastern Kansas / Western Missouri


PROBLEM CONTEXT

Small and mid-sized farms face persistent structural barriers to entering value-added markets, including:

• Limited access to processing infrastructure
• Limited cold storage capacity
• Transportation constraints
• Fragmented, uncoordinated distribution
• High costs from duplicating equipment and logistics across individual farms

These constraints restrict grower profitability, inhibit vertical integration, and reduce the viability of diversified regional food systems.


WHAT HEARTLAND ECo IS

The Heartland Elderberry Collaborative (Heartland ECo) is an active, facilitated, place-based AgriCluster pilot organizing elderberry growers and processors in eastern Kansas and western Missouri.

• Facilitated through ACRE (AgriCluster Resilience and Expansion)
• Emphasizes collective capacity-building and shared infrastructure
• Designed to enable farm-level vertical integration (grow, process, and take products to market)
• Structured to share infrastructure, governance, and market access


WHAT HEARTLAND ECo IS NOT

• Not a single-farm expansion program
• Not a commodity-scale production model
• Not a vertically integrated corporate system


WHY ELDERBERRY

• Performs well on marginal soils
• Integrates with soil-health and regenerative practices
• Supports perennial hedgerows and diversified systems
• Enables multiple value-added pathways (destemming, juicing, beverage and supplement production)
• Aligns with growing consumer demand for regionally produced products

The pilot is explicitly designed to test repeatability across additional non–Big Ag crops, including tomatoes, fruit crops, and legumes.


CURRENT PILOT STATUS

• Core grower group established
• Regular coordination underway
• Shared infrastructure priorities identified
• Grower recruitment initiated
• Early coordination with grocery buyers in progress


SHARED INFRASTRUCTURE HUB CONCEPT

The Heartland ECo model proposes a centralized hub facility located south of Kansas City to support participating farms and processors.

• Aggregation and intake
• Cold storage
• Destemming
• Juicing
• Bottling
• Short-haul regional distribution

The hub is intended to reduce duplicated equipment costs, logistical inefficiencies, and fragmented distribution efforts that commonly limit small-farm participation in value-added markets.


PILOT OBJECTIVES

Establish a functioning elderberry AgriCluster
Create shared access to processing, storage, and distribution infrastructure
Build collective grant-writing and fundraising capacity
Coordinate educational outreach related to elderberry and soil-health practices
Evaluate feasibility of scaling the model across additional crops and regions


FORTHCOMING PILOT STUDY

This poster outlines a proposal for a forthcoming pilot study to formally evaluate the effectiveness of the Heartland ECo model.

• Economic impact
• Grower profitability
• Infrastructure utilization
• Soil-health indicators
• Logistical efficiency
• Replicability across crops and regions

DOWNLOAD POSTER HERE