Mission:
Occupy (to settle down upon a place)
Reform: (to renovate/innovate/improve upon something, presumably for the better);
Transform (to become in/through a process something new).
Collective: A group of people dedicated to cooperating in pursuit of a common vision.

MORTC is located in Kansas City, Missouri (both near Westport and in the North-East). We are committed to growth—both through working together and helping our neighbors. Our main mission is to strengthen what it means to be in a community by fostering direct relationships. Our means to that goal lies in growing healthy food and spreading abroad the know-how to do so in our urban setting. We believe that the time is right to rediscover the strength in relying on each other and not just on ourselves and impersonal social systems.

We strive to work with and not against the land to revitalize ourselves and our neighborhood in the truest sense of the word: to bring back life.

Mort, aka: Death

Our stylized acronymed group name is in part an homage to small-scale organic farming’s French roots, but mostly a frank acknowledgement that Life processes are dependent on Death processes.

It is also a call to action to realize that many of the biggest issues of our day—were we really to rise to their occasion—would require us to fundamentally change the way we personally live our everyday lives. To—in a (mostly) figurative way—die to what we know and do, at least in part.

Our contention and conviction is that whether the issue is Climate Change or America’s healthcare crisis or troops keeping out desperate migrants at our southern border, we are all (in all sorts of usually implicit, indirect ways) complicit.

We believe that what is dead can be brought back to re(new)ed life by good growers, and that what seems ugly at first can become the birthplace of beauty.