
	Fruit Acres
	Farm Market & U-Pick

U-PICK Peaches

Open Late July, August through Mid-September

2011 Starting July 23

U-Pick Hours: 10 am - 5pm
Saturday and Sunday only

Fruit Acres Farm Market:
I-94 at Coloma Exit #39
Easy Off/Easy On

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

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Apple and Pumpkin U-Pick

Sweet and Sour Cherry U-Pick

Ripening Dates for this year

A Note from Annette and Randy:

As of November 9, 2011 The season at Fruit Acres Farm Market & U-Pick is over. Thank you very very much for a great season. My goal this winter is to get twitter & facebook to work properly for the business.

We will re-open in June 2012 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 2012. 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. We do have plans for vacation in Bonaire to go Scuba Diving . It has been 3 years since we were diving and that is the longest we have ever gone. Because of the recession we are going cheap, but it is important for everyone to get away sometime. We look forward to a very relaxing winter.

Gas in Michigan is currently $3.49 gallon.

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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U-PICK SWEET PEACHES

Fruit 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.
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 Slide

Families having lunch in the picnic tent

FREE WAGON RIDES

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

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 2008!!!

PLEASE COME BACK IN 2009!!!

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!!