Cleveland’s West Side Market

Do you want to know the secret of life?

Shop at your local farmer’s market. Whether its the oceanic bounty of Pike Place in Seattle, the organic and sustainable Midwestern greens at Chicago’s Green City Market, or the iron rich meats at Cleveland’s West Side Market, the secret can be found.

Public markets are the last bastions of family owned and operated businesses, granting individualized service and a celebration of seasonality, community, and craftsmanship. It’s good to go where unripe green tomatoes and oranges aren’t gassed with ethylene, where the rainbow of colors at the market signals produce at its peak, ready to be shared at the communal table. Public markets are celebrations of humanity bringing even the most jaded urbanite closer to the mineral rich soils of the heartland.

Check out our photo slideshow of the West Side Market in Cleveland’s Ohio City Neighborhood founded in 1840. The permanent building profiled in these pictures opened on Halloween in 1912.