Somewhere inside the new building rising at 1002 Blank Road sits a produce stand that has nothing to do with the address. It spent decades along McKnight Road in Pittsburgh's North Hills, selling corn and tomatoes for a family farm called Four Maples. The farm closed years ago. The stand made the move to Harrison City anyway, set up inside the property as a piece of family history rather than a working fixture, a way of carrying one farm's name into a building that never grew a single crop on this side of the county.
That building used to be Schramm's Farm Market, a fixture on this stretch of Blank Road from 1980 until 2021. New ownership took the property, kept the bakery that anchored it, and renamed the whole operation Four Maples Place. What's happened since is not simply a market moving in under a new sign. It's turned into two distinct things happening at the same address, on different nights, for different kinds of evenings out, and neither one looks like the roadside farm stand it replaced.
From Schramm's to Four Maples
Grandma's Country Oven Bake Shoppe is the one tenant that's stayed constant through the transition, still operating at 1004 Blank Rd and still the address most locals use even though some listings file the property under Jeannette and others under Harrison City, depending on which map drew the line. The bakery already had its own small tradition before any of this expansion started, including an annual Easter Egg Hunt that predates the current ownership.
What's new is everything built around it. Ownership has been sharing renderings of planned exterior upgrades to the building, and this year brought 36 picnic tables to the property's pavilion space, enough that assembling them became its own running joke on the property's social page. Two sections of that pavilion now carry names, Eugene and Kathleen, and both are available to rent for private events through a request form that opens each January. None of this reads like a bakery adding a parking-lot market. It reads like a property being built out in stages, with the farm stand from McKnight Road as its stated reason why.
The Tuesday Crowd
The most visible piece of that build-out is the Four Maples Place Night Market, held every other Tuesday from June 9 through October 13, 2026, from 5:30 to 8:30 in the evening. It used to run under a different name, the Homegrown Homemade Night Market, before this season's rebrand. The schedule for this season lists local farmers and growers, handmade goods, a rotating food truck lineup, and live music, all set up around the bakery and pavilion.
As of late August, the calendar has three dates left before the season closes: September 1, September 15, and September 29, followed by a Harvest Finale Market on October 13 to close things out. Several nights through the summer carried their own themes rather than running as a generic market:
- Christmas in July, a mid-summer holiday night
- Peach & Sweet Corn Night, timed to late-summer harvest
- The Harvest Finale Market, the season's last stop in October
None of it requires a ticket. It's the kind of evening you can decide to attend at four in the afternoon and still make it by 5:30.
The Other Night This Property Hosts
The market is the casual half of what's happening on Blank Road. The other half runs on a completely different rhythm. This August, the property hosted The Farmer's Table at Four Maples Place, a ticketed, multi-course dinner prepared by local chef Derek Fritzel using ingredients sourced from the same kind of area farms and makers who show up at the Tuesday market. Tickets for the dinner ran $78 a person, all-inclusive, with one drink included and additional beverages available, seating limited and held under the pavilion with live acoustic music.
Put the two side by side and the difference is the point. One is free, walk-up, and built for a family with kids who want to browse a few tables and grab dinner from a food truck. The other is reservation-only, priced like a night out, and built around sitting down long enough to hear a farmer or a brewer talk about what's actually on the plate. Same pavilion. Same family history behind it. Two entirely different products, running on two different calendars, both grown out of a bakery that used to just sell bread.
What This Means for a Random Weeknight
For anyone living in Oak Farm Estates, the practical version of all this is simple. If a Tuesday night feels like it needs somewhere to go, the next Four Maples Place Night Market is close by, free, and doesn't require planning more than a few hours ahead. If the mood calls for something slower, a ticketed Farmer's Table dinner is worth watching for on the property's own event listings, since it isn't a recurring fixture on the same predictable schedule as the market.
What's easy to miss, if you only ever caught a headline about a "new farmers market in Harrison City," is that this isn't really a story about produce stands or food trucks. It's a story about a family taking a farm that no longer exists in the North Hills and rebuilding two versions of it in Westmoreland County, one casual enough for a Tuesday and one deliberate enough to sell out. Harrison City didn't have either version of that a few years ago. Now it has both, on the same road, from the same address.
If you're the kind of neighbor who tracks what's actually changing around Oak Farm Estates, not just the school boundaries and the drive times but the small things that make a Tuesday worth leaving the house, that's the kind of local detail worth knowing before it shows up everywhere else. Jessica Milko and her team spend as much time following what's new on Blank Road as they do watching the market itself, because the two rarely stay separate for long. Let's Connect if you'd ever like to talk through what else is shifting in this corner of Westmoreland County.
