TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) – Johnson Produce Market is located right in the Junction Neighborhood on Nebraska Ave. This area has little access to healthy, fresh food, and David D. Johnson planted his farm right in the city, where the community is in the greatest need.
“We always had a model that you can come here and get something that we grow. Washed, cleaned, prepared, on the table, and eaten within an hour because it’s that fresh,” Johnson said.
Johnson’s Produce Market started back in 1988, when its produce was first sold on a pickup truck. Before that, Johnson’s passion for farming derives from his family history. Both sides of his family were sharecroppers and farmers in Georgia…