Fri 6/5
In July 2010, a horse-drawn Amish plow appeared in an empty field in Ohio City overlooking the Cuyahoga River and broke ground for what would soon become Ohio City Farm. The five-acre plot had once been home to a CMHA building, but had been ruled too unstable to rebuild on. The farm was home to the nonprofit Refugee Response, now Re:Source Cleveland, which helps resettle refugees to the area, providing education, work skills and housing and other essentials to make new lives in NE Ohio.
In the last 16 years, the farm’s amenities have grown: greenhouses have sprung up on the property for year-round growing, and a farm stand sold the crops the refugee farmers produced.
Now that modest farm stand has become something else: a full-scale retail shop called the Glick Family Farm Store. Opening this Friday June 5, it will offer not only produce grown on the farm, but also locally produced edibles and grocery items, beverages, prepared foods, cooking and gardening supplies, and books about gardening and cooking. It will be open from 8am-6pm Friday and Saturday and 10am-4pm Sunday.