A Note From Annette & Randy:

As of May 17, 2012, This has been a very very challenging year!!! We do still have fruit at Fruit Acres Farms. Fruit Acres Farm Market will be selling Black Sweet Cherries, Sour Pie Cherries, Sweet Juicy Peaches, Super Sweet Nectarines (this year they are fuzzless peaches), Sweet eating Plums, Sweet Juicy Apricots, and a few varieties of apples including Golden Delicious, Red Delicious, Gala, Early Fuji, and even some Honeycrisp. All grown on our own farm. We will be also selling fruit from other midwest areas to make sure there is plenty of great Midwest fruit to sell to our great customers.

Fruit Acres Farms U-Pick will be open for U-Pick Sour Pie Cherries only this year. We will be open in late June. We do not know the price yet, but it will be up from previous years. We will not have U-Pick for Black Sweet Cherries, Peaches, or Apples. The precous little fruit that is left is mostly in the tops of the trees so it is easier for us to pick the fruit and sell it to you at the farm market. We are really sorry. This is the first time since we started the U-Pick that we have cancelled the season for any fruit.

The fruit season is almost here at Fruit Acres Farms. Fruit Acres Farm Market will open for the season Friday, May 25, 2012. Fruit Acres Farm Market will open with Sweet, Local Homegrown Michigan & Indiana Strawberries, and Herb Plants. Because of the warm spring this year, the local produce will be 2-3 weeks earlier than usual. Every year is different, that is what keeps life interesting.

In all of Michigan and surrounding states, Spring came 6 weeks early and made everything start blooming in March instead of late April like usual. Then we had a cold April including several severe freezes. In a normal year we would not have had as much damage because the trees would still not have bloomed, making them so vulnerable to spring freezes. Fruit Acres Farms did have some loss of fruit during April but on our highest sites we still had a full crop of fruit left until April 27. That morning it stayed under 24 degrees for over 4 hours. The fruit on the tree was so frozen, the cell walls ruptured. That was the worst freeze all spring and it affected everything but the highest orchards and the tops of the trees. This is your science lesson for today, Cold air drops into low spots, warm air rises to the top of the cold air. That is why the best fruit orchards are on the hills, like our farm is. This freeze has affected the fruit growing areas in Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, New York, and Pennsylvania. So check with any U-Pick orchard you think about visiting and make sure they have fruit on the trees for picking if that is what you want to do. Personally I think you should still come to visit Fruit Acres Farm Market this year to get some great fruit from our own farm. There will be plenty of local vegetables for sale (they were not planted yet during the freezes in April).

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Fruit Acres Farm Market & U-Pick will let you know when your favorite crops are getting close to ripening. Fruit Acres Newsletter will let you know what is happening at Fruit Acres Farms & Fruit Acres Farm Market too!! I promise to try to do a better job in 2012!

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Fruit Acres Farms

Fruit Acres Farms is a 230 acre fruit farm owned by the same family since 1846. The current owners, Randy and Annette, are the 5th generation to operate the orchard. We grow Big black Sweet Cherries, Sour Pie Cherries, and Crisp Juicy Flavorful Apples. Our specialty is Sweet, Juicy, Luscous Peaches fresh picked and sold for 10 weeks from Mid-July thru September. Check Harvest Times for this year's ripening schedule.