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Farm Happenings at Common Ground Farm
Farm Happenings for September 10, 2020
Welcome to our newest members this week from Grand Bend! We are trialing a small dropoff for Grand Bend starting this week thanks to LeeAnn from Completely Rooted who has been bugging me to come to Grand Bend for the past year! I will send out a separate email regarding the Grand Bend p1 read more »
Farm Happenings for September 3, 2020
With September hitting us, the farm really feels like it is switching gears. Most of our planting outside with the exception of some radishes, lettuce and spinach is pretty much finished for the year. We are continuing to plant our hoophouses and our greenhouses with greens from now unt1 read more »
Farm Happenings for Aug 24, 2020
What does this picture have to do with our farm you may ask? Well, Shao took a week off last week just to remind us how important he is to the fine tuned workings of our farm team! He visited Sleeping Giant in Lake Superior to get a bit of time away from the farm and recharge. But1 read more »
Farm Happenings for August 20, 2020
Ok, this week we have a plenty of tomatoes! If you are looking for flats of ripe tomatoes to make soup or sauce or just to have some to save for winter, we have some for you this week. A "flat" holds about 3 times as much as our 2L basket. The roma tomatoes are starting to come on1 read more »
Farm Happenings for August 13, 2020
We are back to summer heat this week after a brief break and some cooler nights. As a result we expect to have a lot more green beans this week. We are picking them this afternoon and will update our estimate numbers afterwards, so if they are sold out now, please check back tonight or1 read more »
Farm Happenings for August 6, 2020
We are seriously into our big summer harvests now. This week we have plentiful cherry tomatoes so we are putting them in the CSA shares at a reduced rate ($5) and we have the very first of our melons! A note about melons they year: They are in very short supply because of some ser1 read more »
Farm Happenings for July 30, 2020
Note: the blueberries are from Blueberry Hill Farm near Rodney (the farm name is incorrect in our listing)
Lots of new harvests this week! Our first field carrots will be dug this week and we're hoping to get a lot out of this planting. The carrots to this point were all planted in our1 read more »
Farm Happenings for July 23, 2020
This week we have cheese available to add onto your order from Gunn's Hill Cheese. For this week we are introducing 3 types, all in larger format (300g) sizes for $12.50:
5 Brothers - hand crafted firm washed rind cow's milk cheese, combines Gouda and Appenzeller traits
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Farm Happenings for July 16, 2020
This week we have blueberries from Blueberry Hill farm in Rodney! We are selling pints for $6.50 and flats of 12 pints for $70 are available in the extras (as seen in the picture).
We finally got rain this past weekend which is a relief for us! The hot weather plus no rain for wee1 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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