Fruit Acres
Farm Market & U-Pick

In Beautiful Southwest Michigan

Just Minutes from Lake Michigan

Farm Market Open Everyday 9am - 7pm

June thru October

Pets Welcome

I-94 at Coloma Exit #39

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Directions to Fruit Acres Farm Market

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Farm Phone Anytime:

(269) 468-5076

A Note from Annette and Randy:

As of November 11, 2009 The season at Fruit Acres Farm Market & U-Pick is over. Thank you very very much for a great 2009 season. If you have any suggestions or comments please feel free to fill out my survey below. Thank you so much for wonderful comments already posted.

Beautiful Fall Colors at FruitAcres Farms U-Pick

 

 

 

 

 

 

We will re-open in June 2010 with Fresh Local Strawberries. Right now Fruit Acres Farms has a adequate amount of rain and temperatures to produce a wonderful crop of fruit for 2010. We will let you know if anything changes in the winter or spring.

What do Annette & Randy do during the winter? Annette does paperwork, taxes, and computer work to catch up from the last several months. Randy and his helpers fix all the equipment that broke during the season, clean up the farm for the winter rest, figure out what we are planting in the spring, and in December will start trimming apple and cherry trees. We both attend farmer conventions during the winter, in December we will be at Grand Rapids, Michigan for the Great Lakes Expo, and in February we will be in Hershey, Pennsylvania and Ontario Canada for more conventions. We do not have any plans for vacation this year though, the recession has hit everyone. But we still look forward to a very relaxing winter.

Gas in Michigan is currently $2.69 gallon.

Please Take my Survey: Please help us to make Fruit Acres Farm Market & U-Pick better suited for what you want!!

Fruit Acres Farm Market & U-Pick will let you know when your favorite crops are getting close to ripening. This newsletter will let you know when the perfect cherry, peach or apple will be ready for you to pick it yourself off the tree, in a beautiful country setting in southwest Michigan on a perfect summer or fall day! Fruit Acres Newsletter will let you know what is happening at the Fruit Acres Farm Market too!!

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Randy in Colorado at a farmer convention in 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fruit Acres Farm Market

Our Mission: To Offer Our Wonderful Customers A Huge Assortment of Fruits and Vegetables That Are:Fruit Acres Farm Market

  • HighQuality,
  • Great Tasting
  • Tree Ripened
  • Reasonably Priced
  • Answer Questions
  • With a Friendly Smile and Thank You.

Fruit Acres Farms

On our 5th generation, Sweet Juicy Freestone Peach230 acre fruit orchard, Fruit Acres Farms grows Sweet Juicy Black Sweet Cherries, Sweet Tree-ripened Apricots, Sweet Juicy Plums, Sweet Juicy Freestone Peaches, Ultra Sweet White Flesh Peaches, and Crisp Juicy Apples.

We offer Free Fruit Samples everyday in season in the Farm Market. We want you to try the high quality and great tasting fruit we grow, before you buy it. In the fall we sell Fresh Apple Cider made from our own Apples. Yumm!! Sweet Peaches being filled up by KatrinaSara is helping a customer with

Locally Grown Fruits & Vegetables

Fruit Acres also sells all kinds of other fruits and vegetables grown by our area friends and neighbors. Randy talking to a nice customer

Southwest Michigan grows the largest assortment of fresh fruit and vegetables for one area anywhere in the midwest. A list of most of the fruits and vegetables we normally sell when available is listed on the harvest dates page.

 

 

Sweet Apples, Blueberriess Nectarines and much more!

 

Annette and Randy

Fruit Acres Farm Market has been operating since 1964 in Annette's family. The market has been owned and operated by Annette and Randy Bjorge since 1978 (except being leased out 1991-1998). The Farm Market has helped several college students with tuition over the years including Annette and Randy.

Annette BjorgeRandy Bjorge

This is Casey and Shadow. They both love to ride in the truck with Annette and/or Randy. So one or the other is at Fruit Acres Farm Market several times a day. Shadow and Casey

Fruit Acres Jams, Jellies, Honey, Salsa & Pickled Vegetables

Tanye in front of Jam TableIn addition to Farm Fresh Fruits and Vegetables we also carry a large assortment of Locally Made Honey. Over 50 varieties of Jams, Jellies, Fruit Salsas, BBQ Sauces and Pickled vegetables.

 

Please Come Visit Us June Thru October!

CHEMICAL USE PRACTICES

  • We at Fruit Acres Farms use Integrated Pest Management (IPM) which means we only spray for insects according to their life cycle and if that insect has been spotted by scouting orchard. Scouting is done every few days.
  • Peach Pheremone for Oriental Fruit MothWe use pheremones when possible to eliminate or greatly reduce the use of chemicals for certain insects such as Oriental Fruit Moth, Codling Moth and Peach tree Borer. We participate in studies with Michigan State University for peach and apple to reduce chemical use as low as possible depending on the weather conditions that particular year.
  • Southwest Michigan unfortunately has too much natural insect pressure to farm organically on a commercial scale. The western states with their dry desert weather conditions are better suited for that possibility. If we could save alot of money and time by not spraying and grow a sellable fruit, we definately would.
  • Our Peches are not grown on genetically altered fruit trees. The new Stellar peach varieties are hand cross-pollinated on a mother tree to get the new varieties the same way breeders have been doing it for hundreds of years. There is no genetic manipulation in a laboratory.