Meet Your Farmers
Jill Elmers, Moon on the Meadow
Common Harvest Farms CSA is made up of four local farms certified organic farms:
Moon on the Meadow is owned and operated by Jill Elmers. The farm, which is located just on the edge of the east city limits of Lawrence, Kansas, in the Kansas River bottoms, is certified organic and is dedicated to sustainable agriculture. In April of 2010, Moon on the Meadow joined with Buller Family Farm to buy another farm just down the road (Common Harvest Farms). This partnership added 34 additional acres to the mix which includes perennial asparagus and rhubarb, a young orchard, and heirloom wheat for fresh ground flour.
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.
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 Jen Humphrey and Jessica Pierson. 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.
Kevin Prather and Jessi Asmussen operate Mellowfields Farm now at a new 5-acre location right between Moon on the Meadow farm and Buller Family Farm. They are entering their ninth 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.
Moon on the Meadow is owned and operated by Jill Elmers. The farm, which is located just on the edge of the east city limits of Lawrence, Kansas, in the Kansas River bottoms, is certified organic and is dedicated to sustainable agriculture. In April of 2010, Moon on the Meadow joined with Buller Family Farm to buy another farm just down the road (Common Harvest Farms). This partnership added 34 additional acres to the mix which includes perennial asparagus and rhubarb, a young orchard, and heirloom wheat for fresh ground flour.
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.
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 Jen Humphrey and Jessica Pierson. 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.
Kevin Prather and Jessi Asmussen operate Mellowfields Farm now at a new 5-acre location right between Moon on the Meadow farm and Buller Family Farm. They are entering their ninth 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.
Jenny, Tom, Peter and Ben Buller, Buller Family Farm
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Jen Humphrey and Jess Pierson, Red Tractor Farm
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Kevin Prather and Jessi Asmussen and Eliott, Mellowfields Urban Farm