Willie's Farm Market

Willie's Farm Market A family owned produce stand selling homegrown fruits and vegetables from June through October. You can taste the “homegrown” difference!
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Willie’s Farm Market has been bringing you the freshest locally grown produce since 1949. In fact, we grow most of our produce right on our own family farm in Lorain County! Many of our items are picked fresh daily – most notably our famous sweet corn. Come see us at our locations in Middleburg Heights and North Ridgeville from June through October! Be sure to savor our strawberries as our first c

rop in June, sink your teeth into our famous sweet corn and delectable Red Haven peaches in the summer months, and check out our enormous display of pumpkins in October!

Willie's Farm Market is hiring for the 2026 season - season #78! Please help us get the word out by sharing this post! ...
05/11/2026

Willie's Farm Market is hiring for the 2026 season - season #78! Please help us get the word out by sharing this post! We need friendly, hard-working people to join our outstanding team! We have positions available at both our Middleburg Hts. and North Ridgeville stands as well as on our farm in North Ridgeville! Apply by filling out the Google Form located here: https://forms.gle/w1rQahWx7UNT8atEA

Interested? Here's some basic information about the job:

The work is part-time and seasonal. Our season runs from about June 1st through November 1st. Though we are ideally looking for candidates who can work the whole season, we will consider hiring those who can only work part of the season!

This is a GREAT part-time job for any person looking to make some money with a flexible schedule! Have another job and looking to make some extra money on the side with a fun change of pace? This might be perfect for you! Many of our workers have full-time or other part-time jobs but choose to work with us because of how fun and rewarding the work is as well as the competitive wages.

Students and teachers? This is an awesome summer gig to make some money - bonus points awarded if you can help us on some weekday evenings and/or weekends during the school year! Experience is not required - this is a great first job for a teenager! (Note: Teens must be 16 years old by July 1st, 2026 for consideration.)

Stay-at-home parents - perhaps this would be a great way to make some money during the school months while the kiddos are at school! We can have you home in time to get the kids off the bus!

Work schedules are fairly flexible and we have shifts that work for just about any person's schedule. We can usually work around other jobs and commitments.

Farm jobs involve picking strawberries, corn, pumpkins, and other fruits and vegetables as well as potentially helping to plant and take care of the crops. Farm workers generally work early morning hours and finish their day before lunch! The job works the muscles and is peaceful and rewarding.

Stand workers have a fast-paced, high energy environment working as part of a friendly team to serve customers and keep the stand stocked and looking beautiful. We need personable people who are eager to learn! As a testament to what a fun and rewarding job it is, most of our workers return year after year!

Starting pay ranges from $12-$15 an hour and is dependent on the type and quality of work being done. Stand employees share tips, which can add up to $2+ per hour to that wage. Bonuses and merit raises are common for reliable, dedicated employees who stick it out the whole season.

Hiring decisions will start being made in early June once we open for the season and can meet our top applicants. Hiring may continue on a rolling basis throughout the summer as we get busier and need more help. Please be patient with us. We'll keep your application on file this entire season. However, it is best to apply sooner rather than later!

Further questions? Send us a FB message. We'll get back to you as soon as we can! Thank you and see you soon!!

- Willie

As I sit here listening to the hum of Pearl Road on our last day of business for 2025, I am overcome with gratitude and ...
11/01/2025

As I sit here listening to the hum of Pearl Road on our last day of business for 2025, I am overcome with gratitude and emotion in reflecting on the last 5 months. For those who know me well, you’ll know I’m a teacher by trade and education…farmer’s son, farmhand, and farm stand manager by birthright. Both jobs bring incredible value and purpose to my life, but there’s just something extra special about running the family farm stand.

A customer just pulled in a few minutes ago who told me how much joy the stand brought her and her family this year…how they made weekly trips up to the market a tradition to which her and her young daughter looked forward. They stopped today not so much to buy anything, but mostly just to say goodbye. It’s feeling valued and appreciated like this every single day by our community of loyal customers that makes this job extra special for me. You can quantify dozens of corn, bushels of tomatoes, and dollars in the till…but you can’t quantify matters of the heart like this.

Our customers show their gratitude every day through their pocketbooks, just by choosing to support locally-sourced fruits and vegetables over the offerings of the big supermarkets. They show it through their kind words and through generous gestures. For many of them, they’ve become our friends, familiar faces with unique stories that have impacted many who work here. I say it every year, but it’s never less true the more often I say it. We have the best customers around. While you may be grateful for us, we are SO grateful for all YOUR support this season. We couldn’t do this without you!

It’s also the people in these photos who take the monumental task of running the farm stand upon their backs each day that make this a job I cherish. I can’t even begin to describe how hard these people work some days - a gesture that inspires me to only want to work even harder for them.

While they are the hardest working bunch around, I hate to call them my “employees” as these people have become some of my closest friends over the years. I call them the “stand fam.” While they may not all be blood to me, in every other respect, they are a part of my family. They are there to lean on when life throws a curveball. They give me a space to be myself and to fit in. They are patient with me and my meticulous eye for detail that could drive even the most patient person nuts. They make me laugh every single day, often to the point of hysterics. They lift me up when life has me down. They color the farm market with their personalities and heart and make it a place I look forward to coming, even on the days when I’m exhausted. I dare say they do all of these things not only for me, but for each other. That’s just the amazing people they are.

I would like to thank them all, publicly, not only for all their hard work this season that allowed the farm stand to have its most successful season yet, but for the purpose, community, and joy they bring to my own life. I wouldn’t be the person I am without them. I am a better man by virtue of their friendship and example.

I’d also be remiss if I did not give a huge thank you to my dad. He often flies under the radar these days, avoiding the hunting eye of the camera, and opting to work “behind the scenes” more often than not. However you should all know he is still the farming guru that is up at sunrise daily loading his trucks with his famous sweet corn and strawberries, the most delectable tomatoes, and peaches that have literally been known to make people weep. However, to me, he is Dad. The man who raised me to “waste not, want not, taught me the value of a true hard day’s work along with the importance of always finding the time for family and fun, as well as how to pick the perfect pumpkin. Dad, thank you for continuing our family’s legacy and allowing me the privilege of doing it by your side! I will cherish these memories and lessons for as long as I live.

For as full as my heart feels right now, I wish I could spread that feeling to everyone! So I leave you with this message from my heart. Find ways to spread joy and kindness to YOUR “community”…friends, strangers, and perceived rivals alike. Farmers cultivate their crops through water, sunlight, and a lot of labor…but happiness in this world is cultivated through the small acts of kindness you can show to each other. This happiness sprouts in both the giver and the receiver of any such act! I see a lot of pain, suffering, and sadness in today’s world, and it can be easy to feel as if change is beyond our capacity as individuals. However, as I’ve learned on the farm, from tiny seeds and a little love and labor, we can grow enough to bring joy to thousands. Don’t ever underestimate the value of the small acts of kindness!

From all of us at Willie’s Farm Market, thank you again for a terrific 2025 season and we look forward to seeing you all again in 2026! Wishing you all the best!

-Willie

11/01/2025

It’s November 1st! CLEARANCE SALE DAY! Everything must go! Open 10 AM until sellout. Winesap and Cortland apples! Winter squash! Indian corn! Zucchini!

Happy Halloween!! We are OPEN today from 10 AM to 5 PM for our LAST official day of the 2025 season! 🥺We are sold out of...
10/31/2025

Happy Halloween!! We are OPEN today from 10 AM to 5 PM for our LAST official day of the 2025 season! 🥺

We are sold out of most items (including carving pumpkins, sorry), but we do still have the following items available while supplies last:

Apple cider
Apples (Winesap, Cortland, Jonathan, Melrose, and Yellow Delicious…all great for eating or baking!)
Zucchini
Butternut squash
Spaghetti squash
Delicata squash
Heirloom pumpkins (great for baking and/or decorating for Thanksgiving)
Indian corn
Yellow-Orange sweet peppers
Cauliflower

We recommend you stock up today on the last we have to offer! We usually do a clearance sale on November 1st but with how little we have left this year, we might not need to! It is possible it will all be gone today! Hope to see you for one last visit!

The carvings in the photos were done by our amazing staff to hang over the stand lights and illuminate the stand in a spooky orange glow for the final 7 days of the season. Don’t they look awesome?? It’s one of our favorite traditions! 🖤🧡🥹😍

FINAL CIDER BATCH OF THE SEASON! Just pressed! It has arrived and it will stay good in your fridge until late December! ...
10/28/2025

FINAL CIDER BATCH OF THE SEASON! Just pressed! It has arrived and it will stay good in your fridge until late December! Made with Ohio apples grown locally in Lorain County, be sure to get some before it’s gone! It’s absolutely delicious! 😋

Cheers!! 🥂 🎃 The final pumpkin load of the season has arrived from the farm!! Open daily through Halloween! Come and ge...
10/26/2025

Cheers!! 🥂 🎃 The final pumpkin load of the season has arrived from the farm!! Open daily through Halloween! Come and get them while the pickin’ is still good! 😊

Here at Willie’s Farm Market, we are still ALL IN on Halloween! We are extending our hours for our final 7 days of the s...
10/25/2025

Here at Willie’s Farm Market, we are still ALL IN on Halloween! We are extending our hours for our final 7 days of the season from 10 AM to 7 PM DAILY (weather permitting). 😁🖤🧡

Stores have moved onto Christmas! 👎Many pumpkin farms are down to the scraps! 👎 We still have an ASTOUNDING display of beautiful pumpkins…while supplies last! 😁😍 They WILL go fast, so don’t wait too long! Just 7 more days in our season! 🥺

And don’t forget your apples, apple cider, veggies, and winter squash! It’s time to stock up!

Dark, gloomy skies today, but the farm stand is looking bright, fun, and festive!😍We are open rain or shine! Today’s ite...
10/19/2025

Dark, gloomy skies today, but the farm stand is looking bright, fun, and festive!😍

We are open rain or shine! Today’s item list includes some of the best locally grown fall treats including: apples, cabbages, cauliflower, apple cider, zucchini, cucumbers, tomatoes, butternut squash, acorn squash, delicata squash, spaghetti squash, assorted peppers of all colors, local honey and of course….PUMPKINS!

WE. ARE. READY! 😁 🎃 It’s a beautiful day for pumpkin picking, don’t you think? Our biggest display EVER surely has the P...
10/18/2025

WE. ARE. READY! 😁 🎃

It’s a beautiful day for pumpkin picking, don’t you think? Our biggest display EVER surely has the PERFECT pumpkin for everyone! Less than 2 weeks until Halloween…come sooner for best selection! They always go much faster than you think! And don’t forget your apples, fresh cider, and veggies to take home too!

Open DAILY through November 1st!

When you stop by for pumpkins, don’t forget to check out our selection of fruits and veggies! 10+ locally grown apple va...
10/17/2025

When you stop by for pumpkins, don’t forget to check out our selection of fruits and veggies! 10+ locally grown apple varieties! Cauliflower! Cabbage! Zucchini! Cukes! The last tomatoes of the season! Fresh beets! Peppers of all colors! Butternut, acorn, spaghetti, and delicata squash! And of course, don’t forget the fresh cider! Our season is wrapping up in just 2 weeks…don’t miss out on the best flavors of the fall season!

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7136 Pearl Road
Middleburg Heights, OH
44130

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Monday 10am - 7pm
Tuesday 10am - 7pm
Wednesday 10am - 7pm
Thursday 10am - 7pm
Friday 10am - 7pm
Saturday 10am - 7pm
Sunday 10am - 6pm

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