​​Meet Your Farmers

Common Harvest Farms CSA is a multi-farm CSA. It is the cooperative effort between four certified organic farms:
​Moon on the Meadow Farm, Mellowfields Farm, Red Tractor Farm and Buller Family Farm

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Moon on the Meadow Moon on the Meadow farm is a certified organic farm on the eastern edge of Lawrence, Kansas in the Kansas River bottoms, owned and operated by Jill Elmers and her fantastic crew of workers and volunteers.  In our 18th year of growing, we now utilize around 6+ acres to grow a wide variety of vegetables, herbs, small fruit, and cut flowers.   We are passionate about sustainable agriculture and feeding our local region.

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Buller Family Farm is owned and operated by Jenny and Tom Buller and their sons, Peter and Ben.  Jenny and Tom met during their undergraduate years at KU.  After several years in Minneapolis, Minnesota, they returned to Lawrence, Kansas, 2006 to pursue their dream of running an organic vegetable farm.  After Tom apprenticed with local farmers for a year, they began renting land south of town and selling vegetables via CSAs serving Lawrence and  Kansas City.
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The Red Tractor Farm is located on the south east side of Clinton Lake off of Highway 458 and is a fourth generation farm operated by Jessica Pierson and Jen Humphrey. They grow a wide variety of certified organic vegetables. They also raise Boer meat goats and laying hens, which provide eggs for the CSA. The hens are fed non-GMO grain.

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Mellowfields Farm is operated by Kevin Prather and Jessi Asmussen, with their son Elliot, on 5 acres, located right on the eastern edge of Lawrence in the Kaw River Valley. They are entering their tenth year of growing a wide variety of vegetables for sale and are certified organic. Kevin and Jessi believe deeply in the need to shorten food production systems and bring healthy food closer to the eaters who enjoy it.

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