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Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture
Columbia, MO
Location:
Columbia, MO, USA
Entity:
Non-Profit Organization
Scope:
Local
Service Area:
Midwest
CCUA envisions a community transformed by good food for all — and people who have the skills to grow it.
CCUA works to enhance our community’s health by connecting people to agriculture and the land through hands-on learning opportunities, from seed to plate.
Columbia’s Agriculture Park is a ten acre space housed in the Clary-Shy Community Park on West Ash Street, Columbia, Missouri. Just 1.5 miles from the Food Bank Market, it is home to CCUA’s main Planting for the Pantry production fields as well as public garden and programming spaces that showcase a variety of food-farming techniques and urban ecosystems. Sidewalks loop around the park and meet winding, gravel pathways that will lead you to explore our food forest and backyard demonstration garden spaces. The park is open year-round to the public to visit and enjoy.
Each season, scheduled volunteers and organizations donate thousands of hours to work and learn alongside CCUA staff as we develop the park for the community to enjoy, while also providing fresh, local produce for local hunger relief.
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Tony Minnick / Agriculture Park Director
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One part forest and one part fruit orchard, the Food Forest is an area of Columbia’s Agriculture Park with 40+ individual fruit and nut trees that grow well in our mid-Missouri climate. Similar to the understory of a forest, beneath and around the fruit trees are different perennial shrubs, berry brambles, and herbs, all of which provide us sources of food from forest floor to canopy.
Wander the gravel pathway to find apple, cherry, peach, chestnut, pear, plum, and pecan trees, plus possibly some less-familiar fruits such as che (Chinese Mulberry), jujubes, Asian persimmons, and guomi berries.
March 6, 2026 at 8:17:46 PM