Green Hills Market

Green Hills’ history extends back to the 1930s, when Carrie Hawkins opened a roadside farm stand to supplement the dairy’s 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 valley’s fertile soil. In the 1950s Carrie’s son, Clifford, expanded the stand to meet growing popularity and it grew in stages to its present size—the 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 stages—even some remnants of the original troughs the farm stand housed! The store’s 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: Clifford’s son Keith, grandson Gary and Gary’s wife Heather, can all be found in the store daily. While the Hawkins family planted its last crop in the 1970s, Green Hills is a place devoted to local farmers, producers and the community.