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Upcoming Events

THE LENEXA FARMERS MARKET – SATURDAYS
25
Apr

THE LENEXA FARMERS MARKET – SATURDAYS

◷ 04-25-2026 @ 08:00 AM - 10-31-2026 @ 12:00 PM
📍 Lenexa civic campus, 17201 W. 87th St. Pkwy., Lenexa, KS
THE LENEXA FARMERS MARKET – TUESDAYS
26
May

THE LENEXA FARMERS MARKET – TUESDAYS

◷ 05-26-2026 @ 08:00 AM - 08-25-2027 @ 01:00 PM
📍 Lenexa civic campus, 17201 W. 87th St. Pkwy., Lenexa, KS
STRENGTHEN THE VINE – FIRST FRIDAYS – July 3, 2026
03
Jul

STRENGTHEN THE VINE – FIRST FRIDAYS – July 3, 2026

◷ 07-03-2026 @ 05:00 PM - 07-03-2026 @ 09:00 PM
📍 Historic 18th & Vine District Kansas City, MO
STRENGTHEN THE VINE – FIRST FRIDAYS -August 7, 2026
07
Aug

STRENGTHEN THE VINE – FIRST FRIDAYS -August 7, 2026

◷ 08-07-2026 @ 05:00 PM - 08-07-2026 @ 09:00 PM
📍 Historic 18th & Vine District Kansas City, MO
Parkville Days
21
Aug

Parkville Days

◷ 08-21-2026 @ 10:00 AM - 08-23-2026 @ 10:00 PM
📍 104 Main Street, Parkville, MO
STRENGTHEN THE VINE – FIRST FRIDAYS – September 4, 2026
04
Sep

STRENGTHEN THE VINE – FIRST FRIDAYS – September 4, 2026

◷ 09-04-2026 @ 05:00 PM - 09-04-2026 @ 09:00 PM
📍 Historic 18th & Vine District Kansas City, MO
Spinach Festival
12
Sep

Spinach Festival

◷ 09-12-2026 @ 09:00 AM - 09-12-2026 @ 04:00 PM
📍 Sar-Ko-Par Trails Park, 8801 Greenway Ln., Lenexa, KS
Heartland American Elderberry Co. Invited to Present at Urban Food Systems Symposium
14
Sep

Heartland American Elderberry Co. Invited to Present at Urban Food Systems Symposium

◷ 09-14-2026 @ 07:28 PM - 09-17-2026 @ 07:28 PM
📍 Kansas City Marriott Country Club Plaza, 4445 Main Street Kansas City, MO
STRENGTHEN THE VINE – FIRST FRIDAYS – October 2, 2026
02
Oct

STRENGTHEN THE VINE – FIRST FRIDAYS – October 2, 2026

◷ 10-02-2026 @ 05:00 PM - 10-02-2026 @ 09:00 PM
📍 Historic 18th & Vine District Kansas City, MO
STRENGTHEN THE VINE – FIRST FRIDAYS – November 6, 2026
06
Nov

STRENGTHEN THE VINE – FIRST FRIDAYS – November 6, 2026

◷ 11-06-2026 @ 05:00 PM - 11-06-2026 @ 09:00 PM
📍 Historic 18th & Vine District Kansas City, MO

Past Events

Nourishing Change Emerging Brands Conference
02
Jun

Nourishing Change Emerging Brands Conference

◷ 06-02-2026 @ 07:30 AM - 06-04-2026 @ 03:00 PM
📍 730 3rd Street Des Moines, Iowa
Festa Italiana 2026
29
May

Festa Italiana 2026

◷ 05-29-2026 @ 05:00 PM - 05-31-2026 @ 05:00 PM
📍 Zona Rosa (North Park), Kansas City, MO
LionBerry Regenerative™ at Stems: A Garden Soirée
16
May

LionBerry Regenerative™ at Stems: A Garden Soirée

◷ 05-16-2026 @ 07:00 PM - 05-16-2026 @ 07:33 PM
📍 Overland Park Arboretum & Botanical Gardens, 8909 W. 179th St. Overland Park, KS 66013
5th Annual Love Your Mom Event
09
May

5th Annual Love Your Mom Event

◷ 05-09-2026 @ 09:00 AM - 05-04-2026 @ 03:00 PM
📍 1901 N Kansas Ave Topeka, KS
NRGS (National Rural Grocery Summit)
05
May

NRGS (National Rural Grocery Summit)

◷ 05-05-2026 @ 11:32 PM - 05-07-2026 @ 11:32 PM
📍 3803 13th Ave S, Fargo, ND 58103
2026 Spring Chick Event
02
May

2026 Spring Chick Event

◷ 05-02-2026 @ 10:00 AM - 05-03-2026 @ 04:00 PM
📍 Town Center Plaza (North Parking Lot) 119th Street between Roe & Nall Leawood, KS
Spring KC Metaphysical, Lawrence
24
Apr

Spring KC Metaphysical, Lawrence

◷ 04-24-2026 @ 07:36 PM - 04-26-2026 @ 07:36 PM
📍 Douglas County Fairgrounds- Building 21, Lawrence, KS
The JET Spring Farm Fest
18
Apr

The JET Spring Farm Fest

◷ 04-18-2026 @ 10:00 AM - 04-18-2026 @ 06:00 PM
📍 26617 Tonganoxie Rd, Leavenworth, KS
KC Mystic Fair April April 12th
12
Apr

KC Mystic Fair April April 12th

◷ 04-12-2026 @ 11:00 AM - 04-12-2026 @ 06:00 PM
📍 18011 Bass Pro Dr, Independence, MO
KC Mystic Fair April 11th
11
Apr

KC Mystic Fair April 11th

◷ 04-11-2026 @ 11:00 AM - 04-11-2026 @ 07:00 PM
📍 18011 Bass Pro Dr, Independence, MO
KC Mystic Fair April 10th
10
Apr

KC Mystic Fair April 10th

◷ 04-10-2026 @ 03:00 PM - 04-10-2026 @ 08:00 PM
📍 18011 Bass Pro Dr, Independence, MO
LIONBERRY at The Eat Local & Organic Expo
04
Apr

LIONBERRY at The Eat Local & Organic Expo

◷ 04-04-2026 @ 09:00 AM - 04-04-2026 @ 01:00 PM
📍 9301 Pflumm Rd, Lenexa, KS
LENEXA FARMERS Winter Market
28
Mar

LENEXA FARMERS Winter Market

◷ 03-28-2026 @ 09:00 AM - 02-28-2026 @ 01:00 PM
📍 Lenexa Public Market 8750 Penrose Ln. Lenexa, KS 66219
KC WINE CO Sip & Shop
21
Mar

KC WINE CO Sip & Shop

◷ 03-21-2026 @ 12:00 PM - 03-21-2026 @ 06:00 PM
📍 13875 South Gardner RoadOlathe, KS
LIONBERRY & The Heartland Elderberry Collaborative AgriCluster 
18
Mar

LIONBERRY & The Heartland Elderberry Collaborative AgriCluster 

◷ 03-18-2026 @ 06:33 PM - 03-18-2026 @ 06:33 PM
📍 Kansas State Capitol
The 2026 KC Metaphysical 
13
Mar

The 2026 KC Metaphysical 

◷ 03-13-2026 @ 02:00 PM - 03-15-2026 @ 06:00 PM
📍 Harrah's Kansas City Casino & Hotel, 1 Riverboat Dr, North Kansas City, MO 64116
LIONBERRY & The Heartland Elderberry Collaborative AgriCluster
07
Mar

LIONBERRY & The Heartland Elderberry Collaborative AgriCluster

◷ 03-07-2026 @ 08:00 AM - 03-07-2026 @ 03:00 PM
📍 509 E. Chippewa St. Paola, KS
LENEXA FARMERS WINTER MARKET 
28
Feb

LENEXA FARMERS WINTER MARKET 

◷ 02-28-2026 @ 09:00 AM - 02-28-2026 @ 01:00 PM
📍 Lenexa Public Market 8750 Penrose Ln. Lenexa, KS 66219
KC LOVE EVENT KC UNION STATION KCMO
14
Feb

KC LOVE EVENT KC UNION STATION KCMO

◷ 02-14-2026 @ 10:00 AM - 02-15-2026 @ 04:00 PM
📍 30 West Pershing Road Kansas City, MO 64108
4th Annual Valentines Sip & Shop by JennyMacs
07
Feb

4th Annual Valentines Sip & Shop by JennyMacs

◷ 02-07-2026 @ 10:00 AM - 02-07-2026 @ 03:00 PM
📍 The Woodshed 1901 N Kansas Ave Topeka, KS 66608
2026 GREAT PLAINS GROWERS CONFERENCE
08
Jan

2026 GREAT PLAINS GROWERS CONFERENCE

◷ 01-08-2026 @ 08:00 AM - 01-10-2026 @ 04:00 PM
📍 4525 Downs Drive, St. Joseph, MO
LENEXA FARMERS MARKETS HOLIDAY MARKET 
20
Dec

LENEXA FARMERS MARKETS HOLIDAY MARKET 

◷ 12-20-2025 @ 09:00 AM - 12-20-2025 @ 01:00 PM
📍 Lenexa Public Market 8750 Penrose Ln. Lenexa, KS 66219
HOLIDAY FLING
13
Dec

HOLIDAY FLING

◷ 12-13-2025 @ 09:00 AM - 12-14-2025 @ 04:00 PM
📍 One Expocentre Drive Topeka, KS 66612
Old World Christkindlmarkt at the Flint Hills
05
Dec

Old World Christkindlmarkt at the Flint Hills

◷ 12-05-2025 @ 05:00 PM - 12-06-2025 @ 09:00 PM
📍 28139 Mt Calvary Rd, St Marys, Kansas, 66536
Old World Christkindlmarkt at the Flint Hills
28
Nov

Old World Christkindlmarkt at the Flint Hills

◷ 11-28-2025 @ 05:00 PM - 11-29-2025 @ 09:00 PM
📍 28139 Mt Calvary Rd, St Marys, Kansas, 66536
Kansas City Holiday Boutique
20
Nov

Kansas City Holiday Boutique

◷ 11-20-2025 @ 10:00 AM - 11-23-2025 @ 05:00 PM
📍 6000 College Boulevard Overland Park, KS 66211
Holiday Boutique 
14
Nov

Holiday Boutique 

◷ 11-14-2025 @ 10:00 AM - 11-16-2025 @ 05:00 PM
📍 455 N. 10th Street Omaha, NE 68102
KC Local Craft Fair Holiday Market
08
Nov

KC Local Craft Fair Holiday Market

◷ 11-08-2025 @ 10:00 AM
📍 11184 Lackman Rd, Lenexa, KS 66219
Holiday Boutique – Des Moines Iowa EMC Expo Center
07
Nov

Holiday Boutique – Des Moines Iowa EMC Expo Center

◷ 11-07-2025 @ 10:00 AM - 11-09-2025 @ 05:00 PM
📍 730 4th Street Des Moines, IA
Schwarz General and Feed Store Halloween Event
31
Oct

Schwarz General and Feed Store Halloween Event

◷ 10-31-2025 @ 04:00 PM
📍 408 S Kansas Ave Lane Ks 66042
LENEXA FARMERS MARKETS HOLIDAY MARKET 
28
Oct

LENEXA FARMERS MARKETS HOLIDAY MARKET 

◷ 10-28-2025 @ 07:37 PM - 10-28-2025 @ 07:37 PM
📍 Lenexa Public Market 8750 Penrose Ln. Lenexa, KS 66219

We are thrilled to return to the Lenexa Farmers Market in 2026!

Live Simply. So others can simply live.

Meet Raeyn, a Sustainable Agriculture Student and your Elderberry Cinderella. 

More Past Events

2025

Maple Leaf Craft Fair
Baldwin City, KS
October 18–19
Moonlight Market
Shawnee Town Hall
October 18
Burgfest Street Fair
Warrensburg, MO
October 10–11
Fall Chick Event
Town Center Plaza, Leawood, KS
October 4–5
KC Metaphysical Fair
Lawrence, KS
September 26–28
44th Annual Cider Days
Topeka, KS
September 20–21
Kansas State Fair
Hutchinson, KS
September 5–14
Lenexa Spinach Fest
Lenexa, KS
September 5–6
Just For Her Event
Overland Park Convention Center
June 20–21
Smithville Lake Festival
June 14–16
KC PRIDEFEST
June 7–9
Meadowbrook Park Festival
ChargePoint
June 7
ISINAGLASS Estates Winery Artisan SIP & SHOP
May 31 – June 1
Rustic Treasures Market
Burlingame Rodeo Days
May 17
Mother’s Day Event
Crown Center Westin Hotel
May 10
Spring Chic Event
Town Center Plaza
May 3–4
Lenexa Farmers Market
Lenexa Civic Campus
Every Saturday April 26 – October 25
Wichita Women’s Fair
Century II Performing Arts Center
April 25–27
Zona Rosa Spring Festival Pop-Up
April 19
The Spring Fever Event
April 18–19
Sip & Shop
Coffee Grounds Farm
April 12
Easter Small Business Pop-Up Shop
Sand Creek Event Center
April 12
Lenexa Farmers Market
Lenexa City Hall
March 29
RiverCity Tattoo & Lifestyle Expo
Wichita Century II Center
March 14–16
2025 Open Championship & Spring Innovative Choreography College Combine
Olathe East High School
March 2
KC Home and Flower Show
Bartle Hall
February 28 – March 2
KU Sip and Shop
Kansas Memorial Union
February 23
Lenexa Farmers Market
Lenexa City Hall
February 22
GALLANTINE’S Event
Pink Rodeo Boutique
February 21
KC Love Event
Union Station Grand Hall
February 15–16
3rd Annual Sip and Shop
Woodshed Event Center
February 8
KC PINNERS
Overland Park Convention Center
January 31 – February 1
Lenexa Farmers Market
Lenexa City Hall
January 25
The Johnson County Home + Remodeling Show
Overland Park Convention Center
January 24–26
Lincoln Women’s Expo
Sandhills Global Event Center
January 18–19

2024

Lenexa Holiday Farmers Market
December 21
Coming Soon Event
December 14–15
JINGLE at the Legends
December 12–31
Wichita Holiday Fair
December 7–8
Kansas Holiday Market
Flint Hills Discovery Center
November 30
KC Holiday Boutique
Overland Park Convention Center
November 21–24

When Words Lose Their Meaning

Lionberry 's Weekly Delusion and Re-illusion Update.

The phrase “food is medicine” has become the wellness world’s version of “thoughts and prayers.” Everyone says it. Everyone feels good saying it. And almost nobody means anything real when they do. That’s the danger—not the phrase itself, but what happens when language gets stretched so far it stops pointing to anything true.

The original use of the phrase belonged to grandmas, gardeners, and people who still know how to cook and where food comes from. In that world, “food is medicine” meant something simple and grounded. A piece of meat and some vegetables—and fruit when it was in season—was just a regular meal. And then there were the special things you made when someone didn’t feel well: mixtures built from botanicals, herbs, fruits, nuts, grasses, roots, seeds, and whatever the land offered that season. Things pulled straight from soil and pantry because they carried function, flavor, and a purpose. That usage was peaceful, instinctive, and honest.

Then came the influencers, using the same phrase while holding something powdered, flavored, and algorithm-optimized. “Food is medicine” became a caption under a neon shake that tastes like peach sorbet and contains a clinically irrelevant amount of plant dust. They didn’t inherit the meaning—they inherited the hashtag. And hashtags don’t carry wisdom; they carry trend cycles.

Then comes the USDA, NIH, and hospital systems, who use both phrases—but in different ways. “Food Is Medicine” is their broad, public-facing concept, the umbrella idea that nutrition is foundational for health. “Food As Medicine”—capital As—is the technical term for the clinical, billing-coded interventions:

produce prescriptions,

medically tailored meals,

medically tailored groceries.

This version has insurance pathways, reimbursement logic, metrics, screenings, and outcome evaluations. It isn’t a belief system. It’s a healthcare program.

So we end up with two phrases—Food Is Medicine and Food As Medicine—that sound almost identical but function in totally different worlds. And both of them, at their best, once pointed to something we still have right now: real plants growing from real soil, carrying real chemistry that does real things in the human body. Not ancient in the sense of “long ago,” but ancient in the sense of continuity—still alive, still growing, still here.

Once a phrase becomes universal, though, it becomes meaningless.

That’s what’s happening now.

A wellness word printed on plastic.

“Natural” stamped on a bag of potato chips.

“Immune-supporting” slapped on anything that wants to look virtuous.

Marketing fog replacing actual meaning.

It’s Peacekeepers in 1984.

It’s “community” in Big Tech.

And on the Idiocracy side, it’s the fictional Electrolyte Drink Brawndo—marketed so aggressively that the entire population believes “it’s got what plants crave.”

In the film, they irrigate crops with the Electrolyte Drink Brawndo instead of water because advertising has replaced knowledge. Marketing departments tell us what truth is. The soil dies. The crops fail. The land collapses into a dust bowl. That’s what linguistic drift does: it hollows meaning until the absurd becomes normal.

“Food is medicine” used to mean:

eat real plants,

respect soil,

trust the chemistry that grows in the field,

trust the phytonutrients that come from this earth,

food keeps you alive and makes you whole.

Now it means turmeric dust on junk food.

Or a wellness word added so a product can sell for $3 more.

This hollowed-out category is not a comfortable place for real food to sit.

The old category, where LionBerry sits—the one before wellness gloss, before powdered fantasy, before language drift washed the meaning out of the words—still exists. But sitting there is not accidental. People tell me all the time to cheapen it, powder it, plastic-bottle it, isolate it, dilute it, lab-flavor it, margin-boost it, and make it “scalable” by stripping out the thing that makes it real.

I don’t do it.

Not because it’s easy.

But because sometimes the right thing to do is always the hardest thing to do.

LionBerry sits in the old category because I fight for it to sit there.

Real plants.

Real chemistry.

Real soil.

Real function.

Zero powdered fantasy.

LionBerry is exactly what it says it is: a farm-crafted drink made out of actual food.

When I say “the phrase doesn’t need to be fixed,” I mean the phrase “food is medicine.”

We don’t need to invent a new set of buzzwords or rescue the old ones from misuse.

We don’t need to rebuild or replace the language itself.

What needs to change is this:

start making products that mean what the words used to mean.

Start making food products that are just food