Fruit Acres
Farm Market & U-Pick
 

U-PICK Peaches

U-Pick Peach is Closed for 2012

You can buy Sweet Peaches from our farm already picked at Fruit Acres Farm Market at I-94 #39

Fruit Acres Farm Market:
I-94 at Coloma Exit #39
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Farm Market Hours:
Open Everyday 9am - 7pm
June through October

Call or Text Annette (the owner) at (269) 208-3591

E-mail fruitacres@iserv.net

Directions to Fruit Acres Farms Peach U-Pick

Directions to Fruit Acres Farm Market

Current Weather at Coloma, Michigan



Apple and Pumpkin U-Pick

Sweet and Sour Cherry U-Pick

Ripening Dates for this year

A Note from Annette and Randy:

As of October 4, 2012, This has been a very very challenging year!!! We do still have fruit at Fruit Acres Farms.

Farm Market Report: Fruit Acres Farm Market is now open with Local Sweet Honeycrisp Apples ($39.99 25 pound half bushel), We have Red & Golden Delicious grown on our own farm, Local Jonagold Apples , Local Empire Apples, all $24.99 half bushel. Our Own super Sweet Cider, not all cider tastes the same. Fresh Cabbage, Cauliflower, Brussel Sprouts on the stalk, Vine Ripe Tomatoes, Red Raspberries (on weekends), Fresh Okra ($1.49 pound), Cucumbers, Sweet Niagara & Delaware Grapes (with seeds), assortment of hot and mild Peppers, Eggplant, Zuchini, Yellow Squash, Red New potatoes Cherry, Grape, Yellow & Roma tomatoes, Fall Squash, Beets, and Hardy Mum plants, all from local growers.

Fall is here at Fruit Acres Farm Market. We have lots of Fresh Local Apples, Pie Pumpkins ($.99 each), Beautiful Decorative gourds (3 for $1.25), Mini Indian Corn, Mini Hay Bales, Local Fall Squash ($.79 pound, you can keep for months), Beautiful Hardy Mums (3 for $12.99), and Big Pumpkins from $2.99 each. Sorry Concord Grapes are done for this year. Fruit is ripening about 2-3 weeks early this year.

U-Pick Report: Fruit Acres Farms U-Pick will not be Open for Any U-Pick fruit this year. We will not have U-Pick for Black Sweet Cherries, Sour Cherries, Plums, 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 any season for U-Pick.

This is how the severe freeze happened!! 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 15 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. We did have some loss of fruit during April but on our highest sites we still had a full crop of fruit 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. Some of the fruit quality has been affected by the freeze. So there are going to peaches, plums & apples that are not as pretty as usual. 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. There are some U-Pick farms opening with no fruit on the trees. 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).

Gas in Michigan is $3.77 per gallon

Local Sweet Honeycrisp ApplesIndian corn & Gourds

 

U-PICK SWEET PEACHES

  • Sweet Earlystar PeachFruit Acres Farms specialty is Farm Fresh, Tree-ripened, Sweet, Juicy, Delicious Peaches. Wouldn't it be great for your family to discover the experience of picking the perfect peach off the tree with the juice dripping down your arm?
  • Early Peaches start approximately July 23 - August 10, they are very sweet and taste so great for the first of the season, but these peaches do not keep as long or come off the pit completely some years.
  • For the Best Quality, Freestone peaches (they come off the pit completely) that you can eat, can, bake or freeze, Peach U-Pick time will be approximately August 10 -September 5.Sweet Risingstar Peach
  • Baby Gold type cling peaches are available August 10-20
  • U-Pick Super Sweet White flesh peaches are available August 20-31.
  • Peaches can be picked from the ground so NO LADDERS needed!
  • Check the peach page for varieties grown.

FREE PLAYGROUND AND PICNIC AREA

In August, September and October everyone parks in a central parking area with a FREE Picnic Area and Playground, just 1 mile south on Friday Road from I-94 and Fruit Acres Farm Market.

Happy kids playing on Playground SlideHappy kids playing on Playground

 

 

 

 

Families having lunch in the picnic tent

FREE WAGON RIDES

Free Hayride

Then everyone takes a FREE wagon ride to the U-Pick orchard. Cars are not allowed to drive to the orchard.

Peach  and Apple Pickers getting off Hayride at checkout

 How do I eat this?Sweet girl  discovering  peach picking Even  cute little dogs are welcome!

Everyone loves Peaches!!!

THANK YOU FOR VISITING FRUIT ACRES IN 2011!

PLEASE COME BACK IN 2013!!!

Fresh Peach Recipes

Colorado Peach Festival Winner Recipes

Farm Fresh to You Peach Recipes

Coloma Glad Peach Festival Recipe Winners

 

CHEMICAL USE PRACTICES

  • 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.

PLEASE COME VISIT US NEXT JULY FOR CHERRYTIME!!

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