good food grown well :: season 28
common good farm
raymond, ne

Common Good Farm is in our 28th 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 2024 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 2024...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.

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updates & events

WEEKLY OFFERINGS FOR THE 2024 SEASON! Our weekly produce offerings are generally as Grab & Go Farmer's Choice bags (like a CSA box but weekly ordering)...occasionally we have pop-up mini markets at the farm or u-pick offerings. Special ordering is also an option. The best way to stay up-to-date on what is available is through our email list. Jump to email list sign up HERE. We do not have a farm store or set "open" hours when we are outside of plant sale season...so our goods for on-farm offerings are by set sale times, like Grab & Go bag pick-up, or other arrangement with us by order. Thank you! QUESTIONS?  Reach out!

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.

CGF FARM FRIENDS! A reminder that ANYONE can shop & buy our farm goods throughout the year...membership as a FARM FRIEND is encouraged but not required! This is NOT a pre-loaded card...but a membership of farm support & in turn, we offer 10% off plants & produce throughout the calendar year. FARM FRIEND + MEMBERSHIP = FARM FRIENDSHIP! Find more info about it here.

PASTURED PORK -- Reach out to us for an order form for next butchering cycles.
~ September 2024 butchering cycle. SOLD OUT except for organ meats & pork fat.
~ Very late December 2024 -- form available soon!

100% GRASS-FED/GRAZED BEEF -- Tallow available. All other sold out at this time. Our next beef order cycle will be Spring 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