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Build Trybe outgrows incubator mode, taking over Maker Village KC to train at-risk youth in trades

By Tommy Felts / October 11, 2022

When Nick Ward-Bopp launched Maker Village KC more than five years ago near Martini Corner, he never dreamed the maker space would incubate a program for at-risk youth that ultimately would build beyond it. Set up in a once-vacant Midtown building he rehabbed with co-founder and longtime friend Sam Green, the space started as a…

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Dr. Marion Pierson, MO Hives KC

For the good of the hive: KC pediatrician builds buzz with award-winning urban bee farm effort

By Tommy Felts / December 7, 2021

No one is more surprised by pediatrician Marion Pierson’s newfound career success as a beekeeper and advocate for urban apiaries, the Prairie Village doctor said. “I didn’t know this would happen,” Pierson said. “In fact, I’m scared of bugs. My husband asked me how I was going to start a bee farm. When I’m in…

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