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 March 1, 2008 The season at Fruit Acres Farm Market & U-Pick is just starting. Annette has been doing paperwork and taxes. Randy has fixed all the equipment and is building another U-Pick trailer. The Apple trees are almost all trimmed for the winter, next is Sweet Cherry trees to trim before spring comes. That has to allow some vacation time though. We have been scuba diving in Bonaire and Cozumel this winter. We had a wonderful time like usual. We have been scuba diving since 1991, diving and warm weather are the reason for any vacation. We love it!!!

Snowy Old Sweet Cherry Trees,Beautifful!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We will re-open Fruit Acres Farm Market in June 2008 with Fresh Local Strawberries. Fruit Acres U-Pick will open with Sweet Cherries in late June or early July (depending on the weather this spring). Right now Fruit Acres Farms has a adequate amount of rain and temperatures to produce a wonderful crop of fruit for 2008. We will let you know if anything changes in the winter or spring.

Annette heard something on Montel I feel I need to correct. Montel said that everyone should wash all their produce with soap as soon as they get home. This is wrong!!! Do not wash your produce until ready to use for most items because there is a protective coating on the produce to help keep it from rotting and if you wash it the produce will rot quicker or it will turn to mush after a few hours. A perfect example of that is raspberries or lettuce. As far as soap, I wash all my produce with water to get any dirt or anything off it. I do not want soap on my produce unless it is specifically made for produce. I really do not want to eat soap. That is my personal opinion.

Finally, I have some bad news about a very dear employee at Fruit Acres U-Pick. Bill Beilman passed away February 13, 2008. Bill had to take a medical leave from his job in August 2007 because of a heart condition. His heart was finally the end of him. To all that talked to him (he liked to talk alot!), he was a very dear older gentleman with alot of knowledge of farming and the area. Bill will be dearly missed. If you want to see his obituary, Click here.

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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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Shadow and Casey enjoying a snowy but sunny day on the farm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.