Duran's is one of the few places that is a small business, they support local, and are true to…read morethemselves and values. Karen goes above and beyond to help with anything. The local products she features are hidden gems sometimes. Great prices and quality. The store has expanded over the years and is very clean and organized. There are contests throughout the year. They also put on Duran's Down Home days, annually, to raise money for charities. It is a full year planning process in addition to all the work at the store.

So happy to have found this wonderful gem! We were specifically looking for a place to get local…read moredairy, and have just been loving the delicious milk, half and half, cheese, butter, and ice cream that we've been able to get from local farms through Duran's. We've also gotten local eggs, maple syrup, and jam here, and have loved everything. Great prices, too!

Sirnas is my go to for pizza or wings, it's a healthier alternative and it truly brings farm to…read moretable in a delicious way. Not to mention the fantastic and friendly service, everyone is so open and willing to talk and help you navigate the menu. I love sirnas!

This is a Hollywood movie come true!…read more The Sirna's were your typical urban-dwelling family with regular city-type jobs up until a few years ago when they decided to buy a plot of land and move out to the country to start farming. Today, they do a great job encouraging and supporting local farming initiatives while taking their hard-worked goods to weekend markets in Cleveland suburbs like Shaker Heights and South Russell. They also operate their own storefront on their land open during growing season which features their own goods as well as stuff from local farms and wineries (cheese, sausages, canned goods, wines, etc.) - again, supporting the local farmers and businesses. One story I always tell people is on one weekend I was desperate for some dill as I had a bunch of baby cuckes at home ready to be pickled. She ran out of the store and came back from the fields a few minutes later handing me this gigantic bouquet of dill weed for about $2. Now I only needed a few sprigs for the pickles but boy the house smelled great for a week! We participated in their CSA one year - a way of buying a share in the farmers' operation. For an up-front lump sum fee, your share nets you a weekly bag of whatever the crops yield that week. This goes on for several months while crops can be harvested. While you don't usually get a choice of what you'll receive (it's whatever is ripening that week!), every bag has an abundance of food. This is perfect for the family that has flexibility in preparing and eating a variety of vegetables from week to week. We received throughout the growing season (not in just one week) corn, potatoes, tomatoes, green beans, radishes, zucchini, butternut squash, yellow squash, kohlrabi, onions, and much more. On weeks which were light on crops, especially in the beginning, Sirna's substituted freshly-ground peanut butter and local honey. Sirna's also does a Fall festival open house with hay rides for the kids. Located along 44 about 2 miles south of 422, Sirna's is definitely worth your while to stop by here one of your summer/fall weekends and support your local farmers.

Cutest little relaxed place to pick blueberries and view their beautiful farm. They sell other…read moreproduce as well and ORGANIC! That's appreciated. The buildings, greenhouse, and plants are gorgeous here. You feel so welcome on their property, as if you're friends just coming to pick from their garden. Reasonably priced blueberry picking and the plants are so well taken care of-all the blueberries were phenomenal! They also do CSA if you're interested in produce purchasing and just prepared themselves for products in the wintertime with a new greenhouse! Come check this place out and avoid the crazy crowded places, or contact them to join the CSA!

I've been looking for a place to get organic U pick blueberries and I finally found it The farm is…read morebeautiful and the picking is great right now! The owner, Scott, loves chatting about organic farming. $30 will buy you a HEAPING gallon bucket of delicious, fresh, sweet, organic blueberries! He also grows other organic produce--just get in touch with him for details. We will absolutely be coming back for more!

This is a review of the Geauga Family Farms CSA program. At the beginning of the summer, you pay…read moreone price for a small, medium or large share, add any extras, and then for the next 20 weeks you pick up a box of assorted organic produce at one of a dozen locations. They have quite a few locations, at various times during the week and spread throughout greater Cleveland. Some of the extras include meat, eggs, bread and jam. Bulk veggies (for canning) are also available upon request. At the onset, the amount of veggies is a little light with little variety ( so much lettuce!) But by mid-summer we were receiving watermelon, peppers, bok choy, garlic, potatoes, eggplant, strawberries, many varieties of tomatoes, herbs, onions, carrots, garlic scapes, cantaloupe and much more. These are organic veggies, and I knew they wouldn't be perfect (I grew up eating almost exclusively homegrown veggies) but I did expect higher quality. You really need to have a plan for the veggies, either very flexible meal plans or a large freezer and some time. I love eat peak of summer veggies in the middle of a dreary January. You also have to be fairly open minded when you receive something you've never seen. This was the fun part, because it was kind of a surprise every week. However, we have also been surprised in a bad way. We were warned that some worms had gotten into the corn, but they included it anyway. The sight of wormy holes in the corn is just a turnoff. Most of the lettuce has little slugs all over it, and even after washing several times they held on tight, so we have been tossing all the lettuce too. I'm not a vegetarian but I don't really want to eat slugs. Today I found slugs in the blackberries so deemed them inedible too. I'm pretty sure I won't participate next year, as the amount of veggies we receive that we want to eat vs. the amount that seem irreparably flawed in some way does not make this a good financial investment for us. It has been disappointing, and I wish I had just stuck to shopping at the grocery store.

Firehouse Farms focus is on Pasture raised poultry (chicken/turkey), beef and pork. They also have…read moreseasonal vegetables. The eggs that are produced here are fabulous. This the best turkey and chicken that I have tasted in a long time. Check out the website www.firehousefarms.org for pricing. It is a good idea to reserve orders now.

I bought a voucher from livingsocial and went to check if All the Above Farm & CSA had a website…read more It did and I found it to be completely obsolete and useless. It was even hard to find what hours they were open. Then I went there to use my voucher and they refused to honor it. The place was a small garage in the back of a house with very little variety of produce, basically tomotoes and peppers. I certainly would not recommend this place to anyone.

A local CSA farm with HUGE variety. Everything is grown on site naturally - no chemicals, no use of…read moreproducts with chemicals in them, no hormones, no fertilizers (we use manure and wood chip compost, and shredded dead wood), and no pesticides. Ample produce baskets each week - you won't go hungry!