Welcome to Common Ground Farm!

We are a small vegetable farm just south of London, Ontario. We grow certified organic vegetables on our 40 acre farm.

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We believe in delicious food.

We are an organic vegetable farm just outside St. Thomas, a short drive from London.
We grow delicious produce free of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides throughout the year, so that you get sparkling fresh, just-picked vegetables at the peak of flavour.
We have a Community Supported Agriculture program (CSA or vegetable box or food box program, delivered!) and sell our vegetables at Western Fair market in London all year round.

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Customize the contents of your vegetable box! More details here
Delivery available in London and St. Thomas and now West Toronto!

Thanks to The Grove at Western Fair for this video feature about our farm!

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What exactly is a CSA Share? What’s in your vegetable box? And what does it mean for me?

Our 2021 CSA Season

Sign up for the 2021 CSA is now open. Click the button below to go directly to the Harvie system to sign up

Where to Find Us

Find out where you can buy our veggies at local London Ontario markets all YEAR ROUND!

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It's been a long week on the farm. Seemed like we

It's been a long week on the farm. Seemed like we had a whole season's worth of work to do, but it felt good. Time for a rest!

Our first main season 2022 shares are being packed

Our first main season 2022 shares are being packed today. I hope you were able to snag a cucumber or two! There is something special about these first ones.

We are planting like crazy. Playing a little bit

We are planting like crazy. Playing a little bit of catch-up with some of the cold and wet weather in April.

Hoping for apricots this year! We have several ve

Hoping for apricots this year! We have several very old apricot trees on the farm and almost every year the blossoms get hit by frost. One positive to a cold spring is that this year we might get apricots as the flowers are out much later than usual.

Sneak peak at our cucumbers. We will have them in

Sneak peak at our cucumbers. We will have them in our first summer shares starting next week!

Our vole hunting team. One of the three doesn't e

Our vole hunting team. One of the three doesn't eat what he hunts though.

All tucked in. The cool spring weather is a chall

All tucked in. The cool spring weather is a challenge for us. We seed our transplants with all the optimism required with this type of farming. It's been too wet to work any fields so we've been making do with squeezing plants into our areas that are ready and keeping them from the elements with floating row cover. Hopefully the snow is behind us now!

We are still looking for summer help! If you are

We are still looking for summer help! If you are a university or college student still looking for meaningful summer work please get in touch!

Jorge and Marcelino Joined us last week and have a

Jorge and Marcelino Joined us last week and have already contributed greatly! We are sadly already replacing a lot of the deer fencing we put in last year. It just did not stand up to the winter pressure on deer that we have here on the farm. Like a lot of things in this venture, we are learning as we go! We'll be augmenting it with steel fencing and wood posts this year and next. With the crops we grow we absolutely have to keep deer out (or we wouldn't have much to harvest!)

A little more lettuce making its way into out fina

A little more lettuce making its way into out final spring planted tunnel. All our space under plastic is full so now we are hoping for dry weather. We have a lot to plant outside next week if the weather cooperates!

Big news! Shao has finally received his Canadian

Big news! Shao has finally received his Canadian Citizenship. Incidentally Shao has lived half his life in Canada so he was already pretty Canadian, eh?

We have salad mix and lots of it! Come to @themar

We have salad mix and lots of it! Come to @themarketwfd with your own container and we'll save a bag. $3 per 100g for the best salad mix in available Southern Ontario (guaranteed)

Thank you to @nfuontario for the new sign! Proud

Thank you to @nfuontario for the new sign! Proud to be members!

A few last minute modifications to our loft. We w

A few last minute modifications to our loft. We will be hosting seasonal workers here on the farm this year to add to our full-time team. We're excited to have them start next week!

Jasmine joined our team early in March and she is

Jasmine joined our team early in March and she is fitting in like she's been here forever! It's going to be a good year!

Tomatoes and basil were planted last week. We ste

Tomatoes and basil were planted last week. We step up the temperature in the greenhouse now to grow warm weather crops. The longer days mean more light and since it's warming up outside we don't need to work quite as hard to keep it warm in here. The night temps in here will now be set to above 15 and we should be harvesting cucumbers in April and tomatoes in May!

Garlic check. We mulch garlic very heavily with h

Garlic check. We mulch garlic very heavily with hay. It's great because it means we don't weed it at all and the garlic pushes up through the hay in the spring. Always our first field crop up!

Fastest hoophouse planting ever. This lettuce wil

Fastest hoophouse planting ever. This lettuce will be ready by mid to late April. With a bigger crew than usual we had the entire 20' by 50' area planted in less than half an hour!

On the first really spring like day of the year we

On the first really spring like day of the year we decided to do a field walk. It was a good day to orient the crew on where various crop families are going this year. A lot of thought goes in to which crops need to rotate where. Not just because of disease and insect, but also logistical reasons, like how much of a crop we need to grow, and when it needs to be planted dictate where we should plant. For example, onions, garlic and leek should be kept together for disease and pest pressure but the area needs to be ready early in the spring so we plan the fall before to have an onion area ready to go right beside our garlic. Carrots benefit from low weed pressure, so we plan to plant them where short season crops that have been well weeded were growing the year before. We don't have a perfect rotation to record, but we are getting better each year at knowing what will work best!

March break means getting dirty. We had some teen

March break means getting dirty. We had some teen / tween help getting this hoophouse cleaned up and ready for the next crop. The dog was no help at all.

Lettuce will be back next week! After a hiatus du

Lettuce will be back next week! After a hiatus due to... well, winter... we will have lots of lettuce coming from our greenhouse over the next few weeks. Very soon we'll be harvesting from our unheated tunnels and then outside. We are planting a lot of trays every week and we're itching for the soil to thaw and dry out!

Spring in the little greenhouse. It's not a huge

Spring in the little greenhouse. It's not a huge space but it is heated enough for us to start growing in here now. The first half of this greenhouse gets taken over by transplants very soon, but just enough time to get a bunch of lettuce in the ground!

Moxie gets the last 2021 carrot. We're out a litt

Moxie gets the last 2021 carrot. We're out a little early this year and supply disruptions had nothing to do with it! I blame the extra wet fall. But we're rolling with it and we are getting carrots from @Pfenning's Organic Farm for the rest of the winter and early Spring.

New sign is finally up at the market. Thanks to M

New sign is finally up at the market. Thanks to Mark D'Dark for making the sign with his router and thanks to @maya_devr for painting it. And thanks to @andersoncraftales for providing me with my favourite sweatshirt!

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