About Us
Fall Fun
Lots of games to play while finding the perfect pumpkin
Bowling with pumpkins!
The favorite game of our 1-4 year old visitors!
Cute family photos!
Take as many as you like for free :)
Our Fleet - Papa Tractor 1955 Ford 800
Our strongest tractor @ 50 HP. Papa can do all our farm jobs, but does break down annually. Purchased last by Allan (2006 - RIP) from Alice (2016 - RIP). Papa loves to give hay rides. Thanks to our other Lake Shore farmers, Bill and Will (2021 - RIP) for helping restore Papa with an alternator conversion and a new paint job. Now Papa starts on a dime and purrs like a kitten, when he's running.
Our Fleet - Grandma Tractor 1953 Ford Jubilee
Some years Grandma Tractor does all the field jobs, from plowing the field to disking to pulling the wagons. Grandma tractor has been converted to alternator. This is a true Lake Shore Blvd tractor, coming to Marsh Creek Farms from another Lake Shore neighbor of Bud (2015 - RIP)
Our Fleet - The Youngster Tractor 2008 Ford T1510
The Youngster never breaks down and is the backup for Papa and Grandma Tractors. At 25 HP, not as strong, but better on the snow and grass. His job is primarily yard maintenance. He is a Diesel and loves parades!
Our Fleet - Bob the CAT
Not a Ford! Not a tractor. This is Tiger Lilly. But Bob the CAT is our most useful tractor. Picture coming soon. He is out almost daily working on some task. He sets up our pumpkin sale yard! He spent most of his working life in Medina, but has come to join his Mentor Family.
Our Fleet - 1967 Ford 3000
Our newest tractor. He doesn't have a job yet, but doesn't he look like fun? He comes to us from a Mentor neighbor, Veselko's Greenhouse (2013 - RIP), where he worked for decades at what is now the Mentor Senior Center parking lot.
Established 1950
Our Story
Our farm began in 1950 when Toivo purchased 15 acres and a bunch of strawberry plants and together with his father built a family home. Allan (2nd from left) began pumpkin and melon growing in 8th grade, circa 1969. Grocers would pull him out of class at Shore Middle School to make deals for his produce.
Blast from way Past - June 14, 1961
The biggest strawberries in town are sold by the Kuivilas on Lake Shore Blvd., Mentor Twp. They're bought by the most honest people in town.
The berries - pretty as a seed catalog picture - are sold at an honor system roadside stand. The prices are posted and buyers are told to make their change out of a cigar box full of money. So far, not a dime has been lost.
The Kuivilas have been selling berries for three years now and they've built a clientele that comes from the far side of Cleveland.
Mrs. Alice Kuivila said they are grown organically (no commercial or man-made fertilizers) on two irrigated acres behind their small brick home.
