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Welcome to Common Ground Farm. We are a vegetable farm located just outside St. Thomas, Ontario; a short drive from London. We have a 100 member CSA (community-supported agriculture, aka farm share program aka vegetable box program) and attend Horton market in St....

Giant Pumpkin Redux

Last year Julian grew some giant pumpkins and was pleasantly surprised that they were well received and sold out right away.  This year he has expanded production and has them for sale again.  Although I did help with the growing and harvesting, he did a work-trade so...

An ode to baby kale

We have been growing, packing selling and putting into our CSA shares many many bags of this stuff It has been working very well and this variety (Red Russian) is super tender and tasty, even in the summer. It can be used straight in a salad. We can cut it about 2-3...

Varieties of Tomatoes

This year we are growing a lot of different varieties of tomatoes.  Too much maybe?  Maybe.  I have trouble narrowing the varieties down.  And the mix of colours, shapes and sizes is exciting.  Most of the varieties I’ve grown before at least once, but there are...