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.

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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A Large Assortment of Pumpkins at Fruit Acres Farm Market

Since the first Thanksgiving, Americans have decorated with Pumpkins for their fall displays and celebrations. Whole Pumpkins keep the longest but Carving Pumpkins is so much fun for the whole family to do together. If you have a lot of spare time you can even make homemade pumpkin pie, cookies or bread. But the best part is picking out the best pumpkin there is for that Very Special Person. We have pumpkins from little gourd size, small pie pumpkins to small, medium and large Jack-o'-lantern sizes.

FREE WAGON RIDES

In August, September and October everyone parks in a central parking area with FREE Picnic Area and playground . Parking is just 1 mile south of I-94 and Fruit Acres Farm Market. Then everyone takes a FREE wagon ride to the U-Pick orchard. Cars are not allowed in the orchard.

• We 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 orchards every few days.
• We use pheromone 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.
• 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 a lot of money and time by not spraying and grow a sellable fruit we definitely would.
• We do not grow genetically altered peach 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.

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