Want to support Kansas City’s economy and learn more about cool, under-the-radar small businesses? Check out KC Local Week.

The grassroots event, back for its second year, is running now through Aug. 23. It challenges members of the public to spend their money with locally owned businesses and on KC-created goods.

For some folks, that might mean eating one meal each day at an independent restaurant they’ve never tried before. Others will go “whole hog” and won’t spend any money on a purchase unless it was produced within 100 miles of the metro.

“People can participate anyway they want to,” said Karie Fahrenholz, who founded KC Local Week. The goal is to draw attention to small, independent businesses.

She was inspired by a similar event in Australia, which dared participants to spend a week eating only food grown or raised within 100 miles of their home. When she tried it on her own here in Kansas City, she was surprised at how many options she had—“all sorts of things that I didn’t even know existed.”

Fahrenholz took her research and created KC Local Week’s website, which features listings of local bakeries, restaurants, shops, breweries and other businesses. Many of these companies don’t operate their own physical storefronts, so it’s harder for them to get attention, Fahrenholz said.

The website also includes a listing of events—including one KC Local Week is hosting at Howard’s Grocery, Café and Catering on Aug. 22—and suggestions for how people can support local businesses.

Fahrenholz, who is an attorney by day, works on KC Local Week strictly as a labor of love.

“I’m just doing this because I really love it, and I love Kansas City.”