Farmers need land to do the job of growing, cultivating and selling agricultural products. A new web service launched Wednesday aims to connect them to landowners with space that can be utilized for that purpose.

Eric Hemphill is the metro farms and food systems program manager for Cultivate Kansas City , the farm advocacy nonprofit that created the platform, known as KC FarmLink. He describes the new website as part classified ad, part matching service, where farmers looking for a place to grow are connected with landowners willing to sell or rent.

Users seeking land, or those who have some to offer, are asked to create an account and profile on the website specifying their situation. Then the nonprofit’s staff plan to assess characteristics of each user to identify matches and part

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