Weymouth Farms & Orchard, Winery

06/25/2026

🌰 A Walk Through Our Nut Trees at Weymouth Farms & Orchard

Many people know us for our Asian pears, apples, peaches, grapes, and blueberries, but scattered throughout the farm are several native nut trees that have been quietly growing for decades. This time of year they’re sizing up their crop, and in a few months they’ll be ready for harvest.

🌰 Chestnuts – Ready late September through early October
Our chestnut orchard is one of the more challenging crops we grow. Deer love to rub the young trees, and squirrels and chipmunks try to beat us to the harvest. Fresh chestnuts are completely different from the canned varieties—sweet, starchy, and perfect for roasting, stuffing, soups, or even chestnut flour.

🌳 Black Walnuts – Ready late September through October
Black walnuts have an intense, rich flavor that’s prized for baking. They’re excellent in cookies, brownies, cakes, and ice cream. The shells are extremely hard, but the reward is one of the most flavorful nuts you’ll ever eat.

🤎 Butternuts (White Walnuts) – Ready late September through October
Butternuts are becoming uncommon because of butternut canker, so we’re always excited to find healthy trees. Their nuts are sweeter and milder than black walnuts and are delicious fresh, in baked goods, candies, or simply toasted.

🌿 Hickory Nuts – Ready September through October
If you’ve never tried a hickory nut, you’re missing out. Many people consider them among the best-tasting native nuts in North America. They have a rich, buttery flavor that’s wonderful for snacking, pies, cookies, or adding to granola.

Harvesting native nuts takes patience—and often a race against the local wildlife—but it’s a great reminder of the incredible diversity growing here at Weymouth Farms & Orchard.

Have you ever gathered or eaten any of these native nuts? Which is your favorite? 🌰🍂

06/24/2026

More Behind the Scenes at Weymouth Farms & Orchard

While everyone enjoys the harvest, there’s a lot of work that happens long before the first chestnut is picked.

Today we’re mowing our chestnut orchard using our Ventrac flail mower, a great piece of equipment designed and manufactured right here in Ohio. The flail mower does an excellent job maintaining the orchard floor while handling rough terrain and tall vegetation around the trees.

Chestnuts can be surprisingly challenging to grow. During the summer, male deer often rub their antlers on young trees, stripping the bark and sometimes girdling the trunk, which can kill the tree. Protecting the orchard requires constant vigilance.

Then comes harvest season. Just when the nuts are ready, chipmunks and squirrels decide they’re ready too! These little competitors can remove a significant portion of the crop before we have a chance to collect it.

The photos show the orchard maintenance work underway and one of our chestnut trees covered with catkins, the long flowering structures that will eventually produce the chestnuts we hope to harvest this fall.

Farming is a year-round commitment of mowing, pruning, wildlife management, pest control, and plenty of patience. The harvest is only the final chapter of a much longer story.

🌰 We look forward to sharing our Ohio-grown chestnuts with you later this season at Weymouth Farms & Orchard.

06/24/2026

🍇 Behind Every Berry Is a Lot of Hard Work

When you visit a farmers market, it’s easy to admire the beautiful fruit on display. What you don’t always see is the work that happens behind the scenes to get those berries from the field to your table.

This week at Weymouth Farms, we’re continuing to net our blueberry plantings using a system that we designed and fabricated ourselves.

The process starts with mowing the row middles. Once the netting is installed, mowing becomes nearly impossible, so everything must be cleaned up first.

Next, we install wood posts and trellis wires to hold the netting above and away from the blueberry bushes. If the netting touches the berries, birds can simply peck right through the net and help themselves to the crop.

Finally, the netting is secured to the ground with staples to keep Ohio’s summer winds from turning it into a giant kite.

The blueberries are progressing nicely. Some berries are already showing a light blue color, while others are still green and finishing their development. We expect harvest to begin in July and continue through August.

We look forward to bringing fresh blueberries to the Cuyahoga Valley Farmers Market, the Farmers Market of Medina County, and offering them through our website at weymouthfarms.com.

Thank you for supporting local agriculture and the families who work hard every day to grow your food. 🫐🚜

06/23/2026

🫐 Blueberries Beat the Frost at Weymouth Farms 🫐

While many fruit growers across Ohio experienced significant crop losses from this spring’s hard freezes, our highbush blueberries came through in remarkably good shape.

Back in April, temperatures dropped into the low 20s during bloom and early fruit development. Many of our Asian pear varieties suffered severe damage, and fruit growers throughout the region saw losses in peaches, pears, apples, and other crops. Fortunately, our blueberry plantings proved to be among the most resilient crops on the farm this year.

Now we’re focused on protecting the harvest from a different challenge—birds! We’ve been busy installing netting over the blueberry rows to keep the crop where it belongs until harvest time.

The berries are sizing up nicely and should be ready for customers soon. We look forward to offering fresh-picked blueberries at:

📍 Weymouth Farms & Orchard, Winery
📍 Cuyahoga Valley Farmers Market
📍 Farmers Market of Medina County

Every berry represents months of work, from winter pruning to frost protection to bird netting. After the challenges of the 2026 growing season, we’re especially grateful to have a beautiful blueberry crop to share.

We look forward to seeing you at the farm and markets in the coming weeks!

🫐 Fresh • Local • Picked at Peak Ripeness



(Video: One of our netted blueberry rows beginning to ripen at Weymouth Farms.)

06/19/2026

06/12/2026

🎵🍷 ’80s Summer Grooves at Weymouth Winery! 🍷🎵

We’re streaming the best of the ’80s all weekend long!

Join us Friday & Saturday from 2 PM – 6 PM for great wine, summer vibes, and classic hits from artists like Dire Straits, John Mellencamp, Eagles, America, and more.

🍷 Award-winning wines
🍐 Asian pear wines
🌞 Relaxing vineyard views
🎶 Your favorite summer soundtrack

Open Friday & Saturday • 2–6 PM

Weymouth Farms & Orchard Winery
2398 Weymouth Rd.
Hinckley, OH 44233

Bring a friend and enjoy a little taste of summer. 🍇☀️🎶

06/12/2026

2398 Weymouth Rd, Hinckley OH. Two miles from either I-71 or I-271.

05/17/2026

Primary buds just starting to emerge, past any risk of late frost we hope

05/17/2026

Weymouth Farms — Aromella.

Across much of the Finger Lakes and Lake Erie grape belt, 2026 may be remembered as a lost vintage because of spring frost damage.

Our site near the Cuyahoga Valley has a different story. Historically, this area was the high point for canal boats traveling between Lake Erie and the Ohio River. That elevation still matters today. Although we are classified as Zone 6b like much of Northeast Ohio, our farm behaves differently. Our higher elevation and local microclimate keep our grapevines, apples, and Asian pears dormant longer than many farms closer to Lake Erie.

That delayed wake-up can be a major advantage in frost years.

Because of this site, we planted early and mid-season fruit varieties that fit our land. We do not try to grow like Napa, and we do not pretend we can ripen traditional French varieties the way California can. Instead, we focus on cold-climate and regionally adapted varieties that bloom later, survive our winters, and can express something unique from this place.

Cold winters and delayed spring growth can concentrate character in the fruit. When the crop makes it through, the aromatics can be remarkable — bright, expressive, and unlike wines grown in warmer regions.

We embrace our microclimate.

We are not trying to be Napa.
We are trying to be Weymouth.

04/24/2026

Our honeybees are working hard pollenating our apple trees. We are just about in full bloom, and hopefully clear of any more late frost events. We will be at the last indoor Cuyahoga Valley Farmers Market for the season this Saturday morning. Tasting room open Fridays and Saturdays 2-6pm.