Buller Family Farm, partner of Common Harvest Farms: A Brief History
Buller Family Farm is a small family farm started in 2006 by Tom Buller and Jenny Welch Buller. Jenny and Tom attended undergrad, met, and married at the University of Kansas. After several years of graduate school, nonprofit work, and urban gardening in Minneapolis, Minnesota, they returned to beloved Lawrence, Kansas with their one-year-old son in the spring of 2006 to pursue their dream of running an organic vegetable farm. After Tom apprenticed with local farmers for a year, they began renting just over and acre of land south of town and selling vegetables to customers via csa's (community supported agriculture) serving Lawrence, Kansas City and Topeka. Since then, they have expanded to sell to local restaurants and The Merc.
In the Spring of 2010, they partnered with mentor and fellow farmer Jill Elmers of Moon on Meadow Farm to purchase and begin farming 34 acres sandy river bottom soil just a mile and a half east of downtown. Their partnership, shared growing ventures and land is known as Common Harvest Farms. Each farm works together on some projects, shares equipment, and continues to farm separately as well on the land. If you live in Lawrence and enjoy riding your bicycle, you may have already ridden by us and seen us out in the field or working on the old house and barns, or perhaps our friendly dog has tried to herd you (sorry, we are working on that -- she came with the farm!)
In the Spring of 2010, they partnered with mentor and fellow farmer Jill Elmers of Moon on Meadow Farm to purchase and begin farming 34 acres sandy river bottom soil just a mile and a half east of downtown. Their partnership, shared growing ventures and land is known as Common Harvest Farms. Each farm works together on some projects, shares equipment, and continues to farm separately as well on the land. If you live in Lawrence and enjoy riding your bicycle, you may have already ridden by us and seen us out in the field or working on the old house and barns, or perhaps our friendly dog has tried to herd you (sorry, we are working on that -- she came with the farm!)
