New ground farm is a small, USDA certified organic vegetable operation located on the east side of Bloomington, Indiana. We offer customers access to food with integrity in a way that is convenient and approachable. Everything we produce is certified organic, which means no GMOs and no synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, or herbicides.
How To Get Our Produce
We’re open for the season!
Online Orders
Place an order through our online store, and we’ll let you know when it’s ready for pick up at the farm on the east side of town. We harvest, wash, and pack orders multiple times a week so your items are always fresh. We have a small crew, so it may take up to 48 hours for us to get your order ready.
Bethel Lane Farm Stop
Stop by the big red barn and grab fresh vegetables from our farm stand 7 days a week, from 9 am to 6 pm. No need to pre-order. The address is 4741 East Bethel Lane, Bloomington, IN 47408.
Farmers’ Market
Look for us at the Bloomington Community Farmers’ Market on Saturday mornings April through October. NOTE: The Bloomington Community Farmers’ Market is online only due to the pandemic. Until the phyical market opens again, you can order online for drive-thru pick up on Saturdays.
What We Grow
We grow a variety of vegetables
including tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, carrots, beets, celery, and onions. To find out what is available, please sign up for our email list. We rarely email more than once a week and your address will not be shared with others.
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Fall is for pumpkins
and we grow a variety of them for jack-o-lanterns, for eating, and for decoration. Visit us in September and October for your seasonal favorites.
How We Farm
We don’t grow anything we wouldn’t want our own kids to eat because our family eats from the garden, too! We don’t use chemical fertilizers or pesticides. We do use a lot of organic compost and vermicompost to keep our soil, and ultimately our plants, healthy.
We also grow cover crops to reduce erosion and to feed the soil. To reduce insect and disease problems, we rotate our crops through the field. Weeds are managed without chemicals by hand-pulling and cultivating with a hoe.
We use our limited space intensively, which requires that we employ that oldest, and most versatile, of tools: our hands. With the exception of a few tasks for which we use machines, most of the work is done with either hand tools or with bare hands.
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