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Farm Happenings at Common Ground Farm
Farm Happenings for May 27, 2021
We're getting ready for the start of our CSA program next week. We have a lot of orders to fill and a lot of vegetables to harvest! We'll have plenty of salad mix, cucumbers, eggplant, and cherry tomatoes. Beefsteak tomatoes, choi, herbs, and beets will also be available to order. This week, we har1 read more »
Farm Happenings for May 21, 2021
All of this extra sunlight has our fruiting crops taking off! Cherry tomatoes and cucumbers are abundant in the greenhouse, and we're just harvesting our first beefsteak tomatoes. This week, we'll have two varieties of cucumbers: English and Japanese. The Japanese are smaller but slightly sweeter w1 read more »
Farm Happenings for May 14, 2021
The sunshine from this week and rain from last week are working together to grow our vegetables. We're also working hard on the farm! Seeding, weeding, transplanting, moving hoophouses, maintaining the greenhouse, packing orders and harvesting lots of vegetables keeps us really busy during this par1 read more »
Farm Happenings for May 7, 2021
We're finally getting some rain on the farm, which is great news for all of the plants we're putting into the ground this week. We just finished all of our onion transplanting, and we'll be planting lots of lettuce and beets today! And of course, field cleanup and greenhouse maintenance mean there1 read more »
Farm Happenings for April 30, 2021
Things are looking green around here! We're now harvesting hundreds of cucumbers out of our greenhouse. We've even harvested a few eggplant, and some of the cherry tomatoes are bright red! The peppers are still taking their time to grow and ripen into sweet, crunchy fruit. There's always lots of tr1 read more »
Farm Happenings for April 23, 2021
We will now be offering weekly delivery for farmstand orders! We want to make sure that everyone is able to get their Common Ground vegetables each week and we believe this is the best way to do that.
Early signs of spring are popping up all around the farm. Chives, green onions, thyme, spring kale1 read more »
Farm Happenings for April 16, 2021
Everything seems a whole lot warmer and greener here at the farm! We just transplanted our first field planting of brassicas. It feels great to be planting outdoors again! As always, we're keeping busy with our regular spring weeding and seeding. We're seeding all of our leeks this week, which we'l1 read more »
Farm Happenings for April 9, 2021
Early Spring! At least so far that is the way it seems to be going. We have been able to start preparing our fields in the past 2 weeks as the ground is quite dry and that means we can start planting and transplanting outside this week. For us this is exciting and much better than1 read more »
Farm Happenings for April 2, 2021
The greenhouse just keeps getting greener and greener! Everything is growing beautifully and we can hardly keep up with our cucumbers. We're making room in there for some pepper plants, which means we'll have lots of gorgeous chard available this week. We're still working away on hoophouse prep and1 read more »
About the farm
We are an organic vegetable farm just outside St. Thomas, a short drive from London. We grow the finest produce free of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides throughout the year and sell them to our vegetable box subscribers, at farmers’ markets and to restaurants in our area. We are committed to running our farm sustainable and providing the healthiest products to our customers.
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