Plan Your Festival Day
From skill shares and Barn Talks, to guided and self-guided tours, live music, local food, artisans, vendors, and interactive hands-on demonstrations, discover everything waiting for you at the Common Ground Festival.
The best time to buy your ticket is now!
From curious kids to seasoned gardeners and grandparents with stories to share, Common Ground has something for every generation.
Early bird pricing is available until August 14th, 2026.
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Tickets on sale now!
FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
12:00PM: Explore our festival Activity Hubs, BarnTalks, Community Fair and Food Hub
5:00PM-7:00PM: Closing Ceremonies and Evening Concert Series on the homestead.
(see map for locations)
There’s something to discover around every corner. Explore our festivals interactive and educational experiences scattered across Foragers Farms and Headwaters Homestead. You’ll find BarnTalks, guided and self-guided tours, hands-on skill shares, land-based learning, local food, artisans, vendors, community groups, and plenty of opportunity to connect with your community!
To get around, hop on and off our tractor-drawn wagon, or wander at your own pace.
Check the festival map and our schedule below to plan your day.
New! BarnTalks
Relax in our beautiful barn and listen to short informative and impactful conversations and Q+A (TedX Style) from passionate experts and advocates.
How a small farm is improving the land through a regenerative agriculture lens with Josh Noiseaux from Evermedow Farm.
Regenerative Agriculture
Rewilding
How to bring back nature into your own backyard. Learn from naturalist, Paul Heydon from Grow Wild Native Plant Nursery.
Nuclear Northumberland - is it worth it?
Foragers Farms
Get to know our lesser known vegetables that we grow on the farm by using your senses to taste, smell, see, and feel each variety in the Foragers Farms Store.
Name that vegetable!
Medicinal Garden Tour
Join the tour of Marissa’s magical herb garden, full of healing and wild native plants. Find out about their nutritional and healing properties, and how to grow and forage them from around your neighbourhood.
Test your fitness level with our farm olympics.
Farm Olympics
Cover Crops + Composting
How can you support your garden with cover crops and compost? Join us to learn how to best support your soil.
Headwaters Homestead
Wondering why your apple tree isn’t blossoming? Or why your saplings leaves are curling up and dying? Now is your chance to find out why. Learn the dos and don’t of holistic tree care for your fruit trees.
Fruit Tree Care
Playing with the Goats
Get up close and personal with our animal friends - goats, chickens, and our horse Learn about their personalities, feeding, and care and how they fit into a permaculture way of living. Children must be with an adult at all times.
Have a wander through our kitchen garden.
Kitchen Garden Wander
Fresh Veggie Cooking Class
Join in on the fun in our lovely backyard kitchen garden. Pick and sample tasty veggies fresh off the vine, and help us chop ready-to-eat varieties for our pico de gallo, passata tomato sauce, and raw veggie salad.
We have found artifacts on the land that are older than the pyramids! Join us in learning about the history of the geological features that have shaped this area and the legacy of the peoples that were hear before us with Tony Armstrong.
Peoples on the Land Tour
The Meadow
Just like the bees, monarch butterflies are crucial to the success of our local ecosystems. Get to know these stunning creatures in their natural habitat.
What grows in a meadow? Learn to identify and forage meadow loving plants!
Learn about the beneficial interaction of bees and pollination on our local ecosystems with Dave from Hunnabees!
Beekeeping + Harvesting Honey
Foraging and Plant ID
Monarch Butterflies
Natural Plant-Dyes
Explore the plants that create natural dyes and try your hand at decorating a flag banner. We will be displaying all of your beautiful creations at the homestead for our evening concert.
Forest and Creek
Get up close and personal with the beaver pond and creek. Collect water samples, net creatures, and learn how erosion, farming, and pollution impact the water we all use.
Creek + Beaver Pond
Surviving in the Bush
Learn the skills of living in the wild. Build a fire, construct a shelter, forage for edibles, make tarps, carve spoons, and more. See how human beings can work with nature, not against it to survive.
Coming soon!!
Clay Pottery on the Shore
Nature Walk
Explore the lower pasture, beaver pond, and old logging trail to learn how this old farm has a chancing ecosystem that’s evolved over the years. Explore the old growth forest, expanding beaver wetland, and emerging pioneer species.
Entertainment
Throughout our festival day, local singer-songwriters will set the tone for your festival experience in the Community Fair and Food Hub. Let their sweet songs serenade you while you enjoy the view of our neighbouring farms and your choice of delicious food and drink.
Artists TBA
At 4:30pm, it’s time to shut down our activities in the hubs and move to the Headwaters Homestead stage for our evening concert series and closing ceremonies. The night is young!
12:00pm - 4:30pm
This year we’re integrating our festival with a special closing ceremony. Join us on the main stage as we reflect on our experiences from the day, the neighbours we’ve discovered, the community we’ve built, and the exciting new ideas we can take home. We want to thank all of you for joining us, and a special thanks to everyone behind the scenes involved in making the 2026 festival happen. Most importantly, we give gratitude to the land for providing what we need in our lives.
Closing Ceremonies
Fire up the Pizza Oven, Tony!
Settle in with a chair on the hill and if there’s room in your belly, we have plenty of offerings from the pizza oven wth your choice of slices and salads, sweet treats, nibbles, and beverages.
Festival Stage Line-up
5:00PM: Pete Moss
5:30PM: Closing Ceremonies
6:00PM: TBA
The Festival takes place rain or shine.
*All tickets are non-refundable.
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If there are tickets remaining on day they can be purchased with cash, debit or credit at the venue.
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Youth - $35
Adults - $45
Family - $95
**If tickets remain
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A ticket provides you/your family an entire day of learning, engaging, and being with the land. An incredible experience of gathering with like-minded community, special guests and experts, vendors, artisans, and more!