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.

In 2020, we changed to Farm Memberships and for 2025...well, we're still working on plans as of early January! We continue with our FARM FRIEND memberships for those that want to step forward to support the farm that way; both are a change from our long-standing traditional boxed CSA we had for over two decades. Check it out & jump in for 2025...and remember that ANYONE can purchase from us!

Eggs are available year-round at the farm & at Open Harvest & at Natural Grocers in Lincoln. Open Harvest also carries our produce seasonally & our organic veg, herb & flowers plants in the spring. Meats are  butchered throughout the year.

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


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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.
~ February 2025 will be our next order cycle. We also have Ground pork on hand for purchase, as well as unrendered pork fat for making lard. CURRENTLY AVAILABLE as of January 2025 -- ground pork by the pound! $8/lb.  Contact us to order for on-farm pickup.

100% GRASS-FED/GRAZED BEEF -- Next order cycle is April 2025.  contact us to get on our email list for future ordering.

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!

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). 

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