Green Hills Market

Green Hills history extends back to the 1930s, when Carrie Hawkins opened a roadside farm stand to supplement the dairys income during the Great Depression. Located on Route 80 in South Onondaga, the Green Hills farm stand offered the sweetest sweet corn and famous succulent tomatoes thanks to the valleys fertile soil. In the 1950s Carries son, Clifford, expanded the stand to meet growing popularity and it grew in stages to its present sizethe current building at 5933 South Salina Street, just a short distance from the Nedrow exit off Route 81. The Green Hills building encompasses all the older structures, and you can still see the roofs of older building stageseven some remnants of the original troughs the farm stand housed! The stores growth over the years has been organic and its character and people are the unique result. It has employed generations of local families and is still run by the Hawkins family: Cliffords son Keith, grandson Gary and Garys wife Heather, can all be ...