Expanding Local Food Businesses and Food Education with Bruce’s Bullseye Farms

“If we could come together, our community is not going to have to worry about what happens on the coast to not get us the food we need to sustain ourselves. Why do we have to look so far away for food when it’s right here in our backyard?”

In this episode, I had the pleasure of chatting with Laurie Bruce, co-owner of Bruce's Bullseye Farms. Laurie and her husband are first-generation farmers and are working on expanding their farming operation. One way they are expanding is with Laurie’s commercial kitchen. Laurie shared how it started with her making sand plum jam and jelly for friends and family and grew to a commercial kitchen where Laurie makes all kinds of farm-to-table products. Laurie also talked about the value of being able to provide for yourself and your family with products from their farm, especially when remembering the food supply issues during COVID and the current prices of food.

About our guest: Laurie Bruce, Bruce’s Bullseye Farms - Kansas

Laurie is co-owner along with her husband of Bruce's Bullseye Farms. They are a first generation farm located outside of Augusta, Kansas. Currently, they have a small herd of black angus cattle, a few dairy cows, and chickens. They  focus on the value added aspect of their farm and run a commercial kitchen in Leon, Kansas where they produce a wide variety of jams and jellies, apple butter, beer bread mixes, made from scratch bierocks using their own beef, and more! Currently, Laurie is also an adjunct instructor at Butler Community College in the Culinary Arts Department.

If you are interested in connecting with Laurie, check out her Facebook or to see their products, check out their website.

At a glance:

• How Bruce's Bullseye Farms farm got started.

• Building up Laurie’s commercial kitchen and some of her products.

• Making the farm a family endeavor and being self-sustaining. 

• Food accessibility and food education. 

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About the Host of Farming on Purpose, Lexi Wright: 

I’m your host, Lexi Wright. I started the Farming on Purpose Podcast from a passion for sharing the stories of agriculture from generations past, preserving the skills and lessons learned along the way, and ensuring the best of that is passed onto those who will continue to lead the way into the future of production agriculture.

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