Middle Way Farm

Middle Way Farm Serving the Grinnell area directly with fresh, high quality, organically produced food. Our Annual Plant Sale is the first weekend in May!

Middle Way Farm is a commercial market garden located on the Lacina farm just north of Grinnell and run by Jordan Scheibel since 2013. 2022 is our tenth growing season. Middle Way Farm offers Certified Naturally Grown farm grown produce as well as products from other local producers for sale weekly through our CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) subscription service and our Online Farm Stand May - December, with time off during the summer.

I have 150 sweet potato slips available, ready to go in the ground. They are certified organic Beauregard variety. I hav...
06/05/2026

I have 150 sweet potato slips available, ready to go in the ground. They are certified organic Beauregard variety. I have them in bundles of 25 or 50. $12.50 for 25 or $20 for 50. Pick-up in Grinnell. Cash or check at pick-up or Venmo. Please text 641 821 0753.

04/12/2026

Just a follow-up to my post yesterday since I wrote a lot of words but still managed to skip over some basic facts :

- I work for Grinnell Farm to Table now, I have been executive director since December and will be continuing to work for that organization for the foreseeable future. My increased workload there is a definite factor in needing to end my farm lease and fully move on but I made that decision willingly.

- I never lived on the farm, I have lived in the same house in Grinnell since 2009 and always commuted to the farm. I have no plans to leave Grinnell. I have now lived here longer than I did in Connecticut, where I grew up till age 18. I'm looking forward to gardening in town this year.

Thanks for all the kind and thoughtful responses. I am not planning on saving much from these accounts when I take them down but I definitely will be saving and cherishing the responses to my sister's death in 2020, ending full time farming in 2023, and the responses I've gotten to this announcement.

Well, friends, its been three years and almost one month since I made my decision to scale down Middle Way Farm and to s...
04/12/2026

Well, friends, its been three years and almost one month since I made my decision to scale down Middle Way Farm and to stop full time farming. Its spring again, and the time has come for another momentous decision. I have decided that I will be closing Middle Way Farm altogether and giving up my lease at the Lacina farm by the end of the summer. I will not be holding an annual plant sale this year and over the next few months I will be gradually harvesting my last crops, cleaning out spaces I’ve used for the last almost decade and half, and selling off most of my remaining tools, equipment, and supplies.

I will be posting a complete list of what’s available for sale in the coming weeks as I find time to catalog and price everything. More immediately I have a couple pallets of Vermont Compost Fort Vee potting soil (45 quart bags - $25 each) and manure compost (40 quart bags - $17.50 per) that I purchased back in December when I was still considering farming part time in 2026 that I am hoping to get into some other growers hands sooner rather than later. ~30-35 bags of each available. Minimum 5 bags (can be a mix).

I also have some sweet potato slips ordered that I would like to mostly sell off. They are Beauregard from Kansas State University Horticulture, and will ship no later than first week of June (I’m 75% sure that’s true given their past track record). Should have at least 425 available. Minimum order 25 slips, $.50 each. Orders over 25 I can drop the price.

Please feel free to inquire directly with me before I post the full listing of tools, equipment, and supplies available. Happy to entertain offerings or answer questions before I have that list out. I was hoping I would have it done by now :)

I will also be closing my Facebook and Instagram accounts for Middle Way Farm, probably as soon as I can wrap up any sales through here. I will still be using social media for my role with Grinnell Farm to Table but that’s the only engagement I’ll have going forward. Please, if we don’t know each other in person but we’ve interacted here and you don’t want to lose touch, reach out for my email and phone.

Continued in comments…

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3633 Highway 146
Grinnell, IA
50112

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