good food grown well :: season 29
common good farm
raymond, ne

Common Good Farm is in our 29th season of growing good food (& plants) through good farming in Lancaster County, Nebraska! We’re a mom & pop farm...food is grown from seed to harvest by Evrett Lunquist & Ruth Chantry.  Our farm is located just 1.5 miles north of Raymond, Nebraska. Farming in Southeast Nebraska since 1996, we are a certified organic & certified Biodynamic®/Demeter farm – one of about 150 Demeter-certified Biodynamic farms in the United States. In some ways, the certifications are just a reflection of our striving to grow the highest quality produce, eggs & meat through soil vitality & regeneration & conscientious farming practices. We use Biodynamic & organic seeds as available, focus on open-pollinated & heirloom varieties & limit our use of hybrids.

Our impulse for farming Biodynamically comes from our experience with observing plants as living things, not merely as passive recipients of soil-based nutrients. With Biodynamics, farming is about creating a whole farm as a vibrant entity through the farmers’ impulses. Biodynamics & sustainable farming are exciting & creative endeavors...directed but not prescriptive.

We grow about 2 acres of veggies & herbs, available by arrangement & wholesale to a grocery. We also offer an organic plant sale each Spring-into-Summer, raise certified organic pastured hogs and 100% grass-fed/grazed beef & a pasture-based laying flock for gorgeous certified organic eggs.

We feel called to grow good food, pure & simple...for people we know or come to know. We steward the earth through our work, growing the most delicious, nutritious foods we can...truly good food grown well! As stewards & through our farming practices, we preserve & create wildlife habitats, enliven plant & animal communities, as well as continue to create a livelihood on  our small diversified family farm.

After nearly two decades, in 2020, we changed to Farm Memberships and for 2025, we're focusing more on our wholesale options & will announce pop-ups and other on-farm options through our email list. ANYONE can purchase from us...but without a year round or seasonal on-farm store, you have to pay attention a bit to how to go about it!

Eggs are available year-round at the farm & at Open Harvest, Natural Grocers and The Mercato (N. 84th St.) -- all in Lincoln. Open Harvest also carries our produce seasonally & our organic veg, herb & flowers plants in the spring. Meats are  butchered throughout the year...reach out to find out more!

Here are the highlights again...busy farm, good food, jump in & dig deeper!


• Certified Organic Pastured pork
• Certified Organic 100% Grass-fed/Grazed beef
• Certified organic eggs
• Annual organic plant sale

updates & events

ANNUAL ORGANIC PLANT SALE IS OPEN FOR THE SEASON!  Open daily from 10 AM - 6 PM. We offer quality and selection with our certified organic and certified Biodynamic seedlings, grown here and most varieties tested for our area and regional growing conditions. We start with cool season veg & herbs, and some flowers...we've been adding tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, squash and other hardier, warm season offerings as they size up. Cash, check, CC (with online pay option). We're open until early-mid June or when we sell out! Our plants are also available at Open Harvest in Lincoln, but the full selection is at the farm! Find more varietal information (always in a process of getting updated) HERE!

GET THE INFO & stay up-to-date! Jump onto our email list and watch Facebook to get on-going information about pop-ups on-farm, notification about reserving grab & go veggie bags, meat forms, and other updates.

PASTURED PORK -- Reach out to us for an order form for next butchering cycles...next up is May 2025. We do have miscellaneous cuts on hand at the farm -- reach out to arrange a pick-up and information on availability. Contact us to order for on-farm pickup.

100% GRASS-FED/GRAZED BEEF -- SOLD OUT of portions for our April 2025 butchering cycle!  Organ meats, beef bones & unrendered tallow available for pre-order.  Contact us to get on our email list for future ordering. NEXT ROUND WILL BE OCTOBER 2024...order form will be available soon.

CERTIFIED ORGANIC PASTURED EGGS -- Find our pastured, certified organic eggs year round at Open Harvest in Lincoln, at Natural Grocers in Lincoln and on farm by arrangement. Also available at The Mercato (N. 84th St store) in Lincoln. Our eggs received a Gold Star Exemplary rating in The Cornucopia Institute's Organic Egg Scorecard...read more here! . Please find them at the shops we have them stocked at -- we deliver multiple times weekly. The prices at shops vary. 

ON-LINE PAYMENT & DONATION OPTIONS! We're old-school with payments, but we have a few on-line payment options. You can donate a box of veg (or plants or eggs...farmers' discretion).  ****** OUR ON-LINE PAYMENT options is just hanging lately & not working *** Credit card option to pay at the farm for plants is available.

Available at the Farm Gate: Find more details under Farm Offerings for what we're currently have available.

Common Good Farm In the News & On the Web: Lincoln's Journal Star highlighted a video documentary project that Open Harvest produced  in 2012. Find the Journal Star article here. The Open Harvest "Higher Ground" documentary video (parts one & two) are on Vimeo part 1 and part 2.

Directions to the Farm from Lincoln: go north on 10th st., following it as it becomes Hwy 34 west. Continue past Kawasaki, turning north/right onto Hwy 79. Continue to Raymond Rd. (flashing yellow light) & turn east/right. Go 1 mile to NW 40th St. Turn left/north & go 1 1/2 miles. Farm is west side of the road. If you get to Davey Road you went to far. ( Address is: 17201 NW 40th St., Raymond, NE, 68428