Common Ground - Common Ground

Common Ground Producers & Growers

All Are Fed. No One is Hungry!

Mission Statement

The Common Ground Mobile Farmers Market and Mobile Food Hub strives to make a significant impact on the development of urban agriculture across the nation while impacting the current food system in a positive manner, and providing fresh produce to food deserts and food insecurity areas. We support the local farmer and his/her impact on the local community and economy by ensuring farmers are paid an equitable wage for their fresh food products while maintaining affordable prices for every customer. Our motto is “All are fed. No One is Hungry!”

In the Central Kansas Corridor we serve:

Recipes

We have a local chef that will be creating recipes for you to cook with our produce! Click to Learn More!

Farm Fresh Produce

We take payments in the form of cash, credit, debit, Cash App, PayPal, Double Up Food Bucks, Senior Vouchers, and SNAP/EBT. Click to find a location!

Donate

We have come a long way because of the people who support us. Click to donate and help ensure that "All are fed. No one is Hungry!".

Volunteer

We can't do this alone. We want and need our community's help. Come learn what farming looks and feels like by helping us plant, harvest and provide fresh produce to the community. Click to apply!

Next Gen Farming

We are committed to the next Generation of urban and rural farmers. Youth can volunteer to work on the farm and we also hire youth workers to learn that farming is not just something you see on TV, it’s a real career. Click to Learn More!

Who is Common Ground?

Common Ground Producers and Growers is a Mobile Farmers Market and Mobile Food Hub which provides fresh locally grown fruits and vegetables to food deserts and food insecurity areas. We do this by partnering with Kansas farmers and growers to provide responsibly farmed “organic” produce to our communities at an affordable price. We are housed on our founder’s urban family farm, in the city of Wichita. We have a heart to see people have access to healthy foods.

Urban agriculture includes the cultivation, processing and distribution of agricultural products in urban and suburban areas. Community gardens, rooftop farms, etc. farm and growing that happens in and around city not just in the country. Urban agriculture looks different and it is different but the heart of farming is still the same, to feed our families and feed our communities. Common Ground Producers and Growers, with its community partnerships and resources, are ready to build a better tomorrow where food is a policy issue, not a profit issue.

Check out our events calendar to see where the mobile farmers market will be located so you can purchase fresh produce within your community

Why a Mobile Farmers Market?

The answer is simple for Common Ground Producers and Growers Mobile Farmers Market and Mobile Food Hub. We have a heart to see people have access to healthy foods. In the 21st-century everything about our life has changed.

For decades and generations, people have viewed farming as hundreds of acres, combines, and tractors. Now there is a new form of farming called Urban Agriculture.

Urban Agriculture is like everything else about the 21st century. It just looks different. Urban Agriculture is now being done on rooftops, in backyards, and on abandoned lots right in the heart of the concrete jungle. Urban Agriculture farmers look like the man or the woman next door to you, the person checking you out at the supermarket, or the guy who is selling you your car! Urban Agriculture looks different and it is different but the heart of farming is still the same.

No matter if you’re in the heart of the country or in the heart of the city the goal for both urban and rural farmers is the same — to feed their families and feed their community. Common Ground Producers and Growers, with its community partnerships and resources, are ready to build a better tomorrow where food is a policy issue, not a profit issue.

We practice responsible farming which takes care of the land and the food we eat and that means the community is getting the best quality of nutrition they can for their bodies.

Our Story

For seven years, the Common Ground’s Mobile Farmers Market has made a significant impact on providing fresh produce to the food desert and food insecurity areas in our region.

The mobile famers market collaborates with a growing network of local producers who work together to provide fresh, locally grown food for distribution in these areas.

Each year we work closely with our partners such as CPAAA, K-State Extension, Double-Up Food Bucks, Kansas Farmer’s Union and local and state officials to ensure our customers are provided the opportunity to eat healthy, fresh produce.

Common Ground has been instrumental in helping senior citizens increase their spending power by 218 percent through the Senior Market Voucher program. During this crisis, the mobile farmers market is expanding its capacity in low-income and food desert areas to help minimize the impact of the COVID-19 virus on our most vulnerable populations.