BROWNSTOWN — Maters, taters, cukes and other produce can be found at a new business just before the entrance to Skyline Drive in Brownstown.

There also are flowers, succulents, cemetery saddles, birdhouses, wooden signs, cornhole bags, Marion-Kay Spices, Rada cutlery and T-shirts.

Cortney and Stan Burnside offer a good variety at Hillside Farm Market.

Located behind their home at 2099 S. County Road 50W, it’s open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays and from 1 to 5 p.m. Sundays.

If their names sound familiar, the Burnsides spent six years set up inside Lahrman’s market on the west side of Brownstown.

Cortney and Stan Burnside operate Hillside Farm Market in Brownstown.

Produce and decorative signs are among the items available for purchase at Hillside Farm Market in Brownstown.

Cortney Burnside organizes produce at Hillside Farm Market in Brownstown.

Tomatoes and canned green beans are among the produce available at Hillside Farm Market in Brownstown.

Wooden decorative signs made by Cortney Burnside may be purchased at Hillside Farm Market in Brownstown.

Succulents are available for purchase at Hillside Farm Market in Brownstown.

Cemetery saddles are available for purchase at Hillside Farm Market in Brownstown.

Stan and Cortney Burnside support the American Diabetes Association with sales of Marion-Kay Spices and Rada Cutlery at Hillside Farm Market in Brownstown.

Birdhouses made by Cortney Burnside may be purchased at Hillside Farm Market in Brownstown.

Wooden decorative signs made by Cortney Burnside are available for purchase at Hillside Farm Market in Brownstown.

Cortney and Stan Burnside opened Hillside Farm Market in Brownstown earlier this year.

Now, though, things are different.

“We did produce, and we did the flowers, but we brought in a lot,” Cortney said of mainly buying from wholesalers to resell back then.

They are now growing a majority of the produce and flowers they are selling.

“When you come and buy a vegetable plant (in some other places), you’re buying the four-pack or six-pack and they are ready to go in the ground. Well, that’s not how we do it,” Cortney said. “We get them there for you. We seed them, water them, get them to a certain point, then we transfer all of those into another pack and then that’s when you would come and buy them, so it’s a process.”

It’s the same for flowers at Hillside Farm Market.

“They’ll come as plugs, and then we put them in a certain package, and then once they are big enough, we will put them in hanging baskets,” Cortney said. “Then they grow to where they are ready for you to come and buy them. It’s all just a process in the greenhouse, and then we bring them out.”

The Burnsides opened their business April 11. Cortney had spent many years doing flowers and working in greenhouses for other people, and Stan had always farmed, so it was a natural transition.

“We started talking about it last winter,” Cortney said. “He doesn’t custom farm away from here like he used to. He was like 10 hours away. Now, he’s just here and there, so now, it’s easier for us to do this.”

Cortney knew she couldn’t run the business by herself because it’s a lot of work, so she’s glad her husband came on board.

“We decided this year was just the year. We just did it,” she said.

Their main building had been used as Stan’s shop to store tools, so he moved all of that out and built a new shop. An old wooden building Cortney’s father had built was covered with plastic to convert to a greenhouse.

“We did that in literally like five days,” Cortney said. “We called in some help, some reinforcement, and we’re like, ‘We’re getting this done,’ and in about five days, we had it done. I ordered the plugs in, and we started to do our flowers, and it has just gone great. It’s just like a family thing.”

They seeded a lot of the flowers and produce in the greenhouse. Cortney said they have 50 different types of flowers with petunias being the main seller, and they also create their own succulents to sell.

The produce includes tomatoes, corn, peppers, zucchini, squash and cucumbers grown by the family.

The apples, peaches, watermelons and cantaloupes currently at the market, however, come from wholesalers. Soon, they hope to buy some Jackson County melons to sell.

“We do trade a lot of products with other local markets,” Stan said.

“I want to be fair to everybody, and I want everybody just to help everybody,” Cortney said.

They also sell green beans that have been canned.

“She would be sitting here breaking beans watching the store and somebody would come in to buy beans, and they would be like, ‘Will you sell those?’ They’ll pay more to already have them broke,” Stan said.

“We’ve never done that before,” Cortney said. “People don’t want to do it, so they are like, ‘Why don’t you just do it for us?’ We’re like, ‘OK. We do it anyway.’”

The Rada Cutlery and Marion-Kay Spices are special items at the market that the Burnsides sell to benefit the American Diabetes Association. That’s because Stan is on an insulin pump and Cortney is a Type 2 diabetic. Their fundraiser goes under the name Hillside A1 Care.

Hillside also recently set up shop at Medora Pentecostal Church’s Freedom Celebration and donated a basket of items to the Pershing Township Volunteer Fire Department’s auction.

“We try to do events like that. We try to support whatever we need to,” Cortney said.

Stan said they also take produce to local food pantries.

Plus, the Burnsides set up at the Bedford Farmers Market from 8 a.m. to noon Saturdays.

“We do really well over there,” Cortney said. “They are very nice over there. We get a lot of business over there.”

That market and their business will go through October.

“I just grew up on a farm, so it’s just every day for me,” Stan said of what he likes about the business.

“I just love it because it gets my family together,” Cortney said, as both of their parents and both of their kids help. “Just the whole nature part, you see God’s glory. You see it from the seed to the plant to the customer. You see it all. Everything you see, everything is growing and we planted all of that, so it’s just a good feeling to have.”

Hillside Farm Market is at 2099 S. County Road 50W, Brownstown.

Hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays and from 1 to 5 p.m. Sundays.

For information, call 812-498-1475 or search for Hillside Farm Market on Facebook.

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