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Farm Happenings at Common Ground Farm
Farm Happenings for July 9, 2020
We are struggling a bit with a couple of our greenhouse crops, like the peppers shown above. You may have noticed there are not that many available yet. It's a new crop for us and the aphids in the greenhouse have overwhelmed the crop. We're doing our best to encourage beneficial1 read more »
Farm Happenings for July 2, 2020
Parsnips are up! We may be just getting into our summer crops now, but I am actually busy planting and tending to a fair number of fall and winter crops already.
A note about share sizes and item values:
Sharing in seasonal abundance is a key benefit of signing up with us for an entire seaso1 read more »
Farm Happenings for June 25, 2020
A lot of carrots available this week thanks to one of our hoophouse being turned over. We're getting ready for a late planting of english cucumbers in our small movable hoophouse so we harvested some very nice spring carrots.
We are transitioning from our very busy planting season over to our1 read more »
Farm Happenings for June 18, 2020
Markets are reopening! This weekend we will be returning to Western Fair market on Saturday from 8 to 3 pm. We also have Booch kombucha available for order starting this week.
On the farm we have been very busy getting our leek transplanted and staying on top of weeding on the farm.&nbs1 read more »
Farm Happenings for June 11, 2020
Tomato trellising seems like a continuous task this time of year on the farm. We have moved on to trellising our hoophouse tomatoes and will soon be doing outside tomatoes as well. The harvest of tomatoes will increase steadily from now until late July when we will have a very large amo1 read more »
Farm Happenings for June 4, 2020
Summer arrived last week with a bang and heat and irrigation were suddenly needed. We're back to cooler temperatures now which the farm crew appreciates. We are in the thick of our big transplanting jobs and just starting to get a number of new crops near harvest. The spring was v1 read more »
Farm Happenings for May 28, 2020
First week of the summer CSA!
Sorry for the delay in getting the delivery estimate out. We have some issues we're working through with Harvie and it took some time to make sure members were setup correctly before I could send this out. But it's here!
If you have been doing farmstand orders wi1 read more »
Happenings for May 22, 2020
This is our last week of "pre-season" orders. Next week we will start our summer CSA shares. What does that mean? If you have a summer share starting next week it means your order process will be a bit different. You will get an automatically chosen share email on Monday 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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