Leavenworth County Has a Full Day of the Kaw Valley Farm Tour This Year. The City's List Is Out of Date.

The Kaw Valley Farm Tour runs this Saturday and Sunday, October 3 and 4. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, and one $15 ticket covers a whole carload for both days. The organizers say most people can see only four or five farms in a day. This year, four of the stops are in Leavenworth County.

So anyone living in Tonganoxie, Basehor, Lansing or Leavenworth can fill one tour day without leaving the county. The day only works if you start from the right list, though. The roster on the City of Leavenworth's visitor site is from an earlier year, and its farms don't match the 2026 tour.

The list on the city site is from another year

The Kaw Valley Farm Tour page on the Leavenworth visitors site names its county participants as JET Produce & Meats, Klamm Flowers, Next to Nature Farm and Z&M Twisted Vines. It dates the tour Saturday, October 5 through Sunday, October 6. The page gives no year, but on the calendar October 5 last fell on a Saturday in 2024. In 2026 it falls on a Monday. A second city calendar entry does carry the correct October 3–4, 2026 dates, but its map pin is JET Produce at 26617 Tonganoxie Road in Lansing. JET Produce does not show up among the 2026 farm profiles on the tour's own website.

Here's how the two lists compare:

Klamm is the only name on both lists. Any of the other three farms on the old list may still welcome visitors on its own schedule. They just don't have a 2026 tour profile, so the guidebook ticket may not get you in this weekend. The tour's digital map is the current source. The organizers say it also shows each farm's special events and vendors for the weekend.

Don't count on a single total for the tour. The tour homepage says 33 farms and 6 heritage sites. Its farm directory says 32 and 4. The Tonganoxie Mirror's September 30 story says about 30 farms and four heritage sites. The four Leavenworth County stops below each have their own 2026 tour profile.

Building the day around the published schedules

These four stops fit one day, and the order below follows each stop's published timing. It is not a driving route. Check the tour map for the actual drive between them before you leave.

9 a.m.: Tonganoxie Community Historical Society

The heritage site at 201 W Washington Street sits on ten acres in southwestern Tonganoxie. Its museum is in a 1932 milking parlor and hay barn on a dairy farm dating to the mid-1880s. The exhibits cover Tonganoxie's past as a town touted as the Dairy Capital of Kansas in 1949, plus the history of the town's creameries. The grounds also hold the Honey Valley District #56 one-room schoolhouse, restored to look as it did around 1920, and the 1918 Reno Methodist Church, which was moved to the site in 1993. A restored 1936 US Army fire pumper truck, used by the Tonganoxie Volunteer Fire Department in the 1950s, is on display too.

The tour lists this site as new in 2026. For the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, it will show a special exhibit called Moments that Made US. A second exhibit marks the ninth anniversary of the local No Tyson in Tongie movement. Kids get old-time games, including jump ropes, jacks and one-legged milking stools.

If you bought a digital ticket, this is where it turns into a physical ticket. You show your email receipt at your first stop and get the guidebook you'll present everywhere else. The physical outlets are The Merc Co+op, Cottin's Hardware and Rental, and the Douglas County Extension Office in Lawrence, plus Franklin General Store on Johnson Drive in Shawnee. None of those are in Leavenworth County, so buying digital is probably easier if you start here.

Late morning to lunch: Rose Cattle Farm

Rose Cattle Farm, at 16503 246th St. in Tonganoxie, is a third-generation operation that raises American Wagyu. The tour lands during fall calving, so visitors can meet the cows and calves, and Wagyu beef is for sale. Two schedules make it a good lunch stop. The rescue donkeys are fed at the top of every hour on both days. On Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., 1866 Bar & Grill's "Generation X" taco truck serves Wagyu tacos. Vendors on site include D&D BBQ with its barbecue sauce, Griem's FarmHouse Fancies with handcrafted home decor and woodwork, and local author Ray D. Morgan.

The taco truck is Saturday only. On Sunday, plan food for the day another way.

Afternoon: Holy-Field Vineyard & Winery

Holy-Field, at 18807 158th St. in Basehor, calls itself the oldest farm winery in Kansas. It opened as a winery in 1994, and the vineyard was first planted in 1986. It now covers 17 acres of grapevines, and the winery's wines have won 19 Jefferson Cup trophies. During the tour, cellar and winemaking tours are added to the usual tasting room and vineyard walks. Kids are offered grape juice in the tasting room.

The tour weekend falls during Holy-Field's harvest season. The Leavenworth visitors calendar lists harvest picking parties there from August through October 2026. The winery describes a harvest morning as volunteers picking grapes, then lunch and a visit to the cellar to watch the crush and taste the juice.

Before closing: Klamm Flower Maze

Klamm Flower Maze has a Bonner Springs mailing address, 15983 166th St., but the county visitors bureau includes it among Leavenworth County agritourism businesses. Visitors walk the maze and cut their own flowers for a bouquet, or ask for a grab-and-go bouquet. Kids can work their way through the maze, and coloring pages are there for anyone who'd rather not walk it. Owner Jeanette Klamm's profile mentions that her own dogs love attention. That's separate from the tour-wide rule that visitors leave their pets at home.

Flowers you cut late in the day spend less time in a hot car, which is the reason this order puts Klamm last.

Just past the county line on Friday night

The tour starts the night before at Irvine's Just Beyond Paradise, 13561 246th St., which has a Lawrence address. The kickoff runs Friday, October 2, from 5:30 to 8 p.m. It includes a multicourse meal from chefs T.K. Peterson and Depal Patel, dessert from chef Jack Low and Eudora Culinary students, live music from Mire Pral, and a silent auction benefiting Growing Food Growing Health and the tour. Tickets are $125 per person. During the tour itself, Irvine's offers free winery tours, live music with the 3rd Kansas Cavalry Unit at 3 p.m. Saturday, and wood-fired pizza all weekend. That pizza is one answer to Sunday lunch.

What else is on the county calendar October 3

The tour isn't the only thing happening Saturday. Tonganoxie's Fall Citywide Garage Sales run all day October 3. The Leavenworth Model Show & Contest is on the same day from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at The Heritage Event & Arts Center, 109 Delaware St. With garage sales in Tonganoxie the same morning, expect more Saturday traffic on town streets near the historical society stop. Sunday's shorter tour hours, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., still leave room for all four stops if Saturday gets crowded.

The roads between the stops

The tour warns that the weekend is rain or shine and that some secondary roads may be unpaved. Leavenworth County Public Works still lists these closures:

• Leavenworth Road, about 100 feet west of 168th Street: closed since August 21 for a culvert replacement. Barricades warn drivers at 163rd, 171st and 175th streets. There is no signed detour, and the road is expected to reopen October 19.
• 235th Street, Hollingsworth to Dempsey Road: closed to through traffic for Phase 5 culvert work until October 16. The signed detour runs west on Hollingsworth to 243rd Street, then north on 243rd and Levee 8 Road to Dempsey.
• Jamison Road, east of 187th Street: closed for the Bridge HP-51 replacement. The county's posted end date of September 18 has passed, and the page hasn't been updated, so check before you count on it.

Within Leavenworth city limits, KDOT's September 29 update says the K-92 lanes at Spruce and 20th Street are open, with grading and surfacing expected to wrap up in early October. The county's road closures page lets you sign up for alerts, which is the fastest way to find out if any of these dates change before Saturday.

At Kristi Porter, we spend a lot of time on these back roads between Tonganoxie and Basehor, and a weekend like this is one of the best things about them. If your carload heads out this Saturday and you have questions about acreage or small farms out here, we'd be happy to talk it through. Your Home Starts Here.