Current Days and Hours
Please note our new spring hours for 2025.

Just check our website, FB, Google, or call us at (269) 244-5690 for days and hours as needed.  If you need to get something when we are closed, please call…….and we will try to set up a time to meet you.  We may end up changing some hours during strawberry season, so stay tuned.

Closed      Monday
10 to 2     Tuesday
Closed      Wednesday
9 to 4       Thursday
9 to 6       Friday
9 to 4       Saturday
9 to 2       Sunday
We are finally wrapping up our Spring season, we just finished the last picking of asparagus and rhubarb.  What a great season it has been for both.  We will miss them for sure.

And we are turning the page in our 2025 harvest calendar to strawberries and early vegetables.

Our first strawberry customer of the year, she had to take one and eat it immediately!!!
Asparagus and Rhubarb
Both will be available until we run out.  We hope to at least have enough to get through the weekend.
Market Space Reorganization
As many of you have noticed, especially when you can’t find the donuts, we have been shuffling things around the market more than normal.  Hopefully we are done until the next reshuffling!  Our goal was to increase space around the most popular areas of the market.  Change is hard, but change is good, too.  Just ask, we will help you find what you are looking for!!
Strawberries
Already Picked Strawberries on the Market
The strawberry season is underway, but berries are coming SLOWLY due to the cooler weather.  We are a week to 10 days away (depending on the weather) from having large quantities of strawberries.  Right now, we are just selling them by the quart, and have a 5 quart limit until larger quantities can be picked.  Strawberries are running in their “normal” timeframe this year, which is typically the middle of June.  Last year was very unusual, when they were 2 weeks early.

As the weather permits, we will try to have some for sale each day by the quart, box (5-quarts), and flat (8 quarts).  We will not pick if they are not ripe enough or if it is raining.  We pick berries fresh every day, so we will not have them on the market until about 10:30 am.  With strawberries being in high demand right now, we recommend you call us and have us hold some for same-day pickup.  Please note that we are not taking advance orders and have switched to “same day, set aside” orders only.   See more on our ordering process below.

Please watch for updates before driving out as things may change throughout the day.  We know your time and the cost of fuel is valuable and we don’t want you to come for berries if we are sold out.

We will primarily be using our Facebook page to communicate the availability of strawberries throughout the day and the season.  You can also check our website, call us (269)-244-5690, or talk with one of our staff for updates.

We are growing a limited number of strawberries on our farm and will be getting most of them locally from River Valley Farm in Constantine, as we have done for several years.  River Valley Farms also offers picked berries; please check their Facebook page for information as they will not be open for another week or so.

U-Pick Strawberries
We will be opening our small strawberry field for u-pick.  The price is $5 a quart, limit of 4 quarts.  We have conveniently located our small field close to the market so that those wanting just the “experience” of picking a few berries, can pick at our farm.  We are waiting for some warmer weather to ripen our berries before we can open for u-pick.  So, call us or check our Corey Lake orchards Facebook page.

Those who want to pick larger quantities of berries (like for jam making, freezing, etc.) can go to River Valley Farms when they open their u-pick fields.  Customers need to check the River Valley Farms Facebook page to find out when they will be open, pricing, etc.  They are not open for u-pick yet either, waiting on berries to ripen.
On the Market
What is on the Market
Here’s what we will have:

  • Fresh picked asparagus and rhubarb until gone for the season
  • Strawberries, unless we sell out
  • Lettuces and produce from Bankson Lake Farms
  • Assorted fresh baked goods including ‘take and bake’ fruit pies and strombolis
  • Local maple products, honey, jams, jellies, and salsas, Jake’s meats, milk, eggs, yogurt and ice cream
  • Alcohol products – hard ciders, wines, spirits
  • Nice selection of springtime gifts made by our local artisans, perfect for birthdays, hostess, pet/house sitters, or yourself!
  • Fresh flower bouquets from Flowerfield Farm
  • Ice cold slushies!
  • U-pick herbs, chive only (the others are still growing)
Gardening and Plants
If you’re looking for some things to adorn your lawn or garden area, check out these new additions in the breezeway beside the market.
Plant Specials.  We have extra vegetable plants leftover from our field planting.  We have cucumber, peppers, zucchini, yellow squash, and some mini cantaloupe for sale.  If you’re like us, you probably have some plants in your garden that did not make it, either due to the cold weather or from a visit by your favorite neighborhood critters!
Also, we need more space on the market so the last remaining hanging baskets, lettuce bowls and pots of mini tomatoes are $5 off each until they are gone.  Flowers and succulents are at their regular prices.
Across the Market
Bakery
We are busy making assorted baked goods.

  • Assorted “take and bake” fruit pies, including seasonal fresh rhubarb pies (frozen)
  • Assorted cookies, muffins, and breads
  • Cinnamon rolls and cinnamon bread – take and thaw
  • Donuts – Saturday, and Sunday in buttermilk, blueberry, and cherry flavors
  • Moe’s “take and bake” strombolis (frozen)
  • Our famous shortcakes to go with your strawberries
Shortcakes for Strawberries
It was strawberry shortcake day in the bakery!  They just continued to come out of the oven and pile up!

They are made from our baker’s special family recipe.  Enjoy the shortcakes; we lovingly make them every year during strawberry season.

To go with your berries and shortcakes, we also have whipped cream in our refrigerator and vanilla ice cream in our freezer for the finishing touch!
Grocery
We offer select grocery products like salad dressing, jam, jelly, salsa, fresh eggs, cheese, yogurt, fresh milk, vanilla ice cream, crackers, chips, meats, dog treats, and more.  We focus on offering products from companies located in Michigan, to support Michigan-grown and Michigan-made!
Alcohol
We have a nice variety of spirits, wines, and hard ciders – most made on the farm using our surplus fruit and cider.

If you enjoy a semi-dry wine, you’ll like our Market Red.  It’s a semi-dry red, enjoy while chilling with your friends and family.
Important Strawberry Ordering Information
Important Strawberry Ordering Information
1.  We will accept same-day orders only.  The quantity picked each day will vary depending on growing conditions and weather (such as not picking when it is raining).
2.  Strawberries are picked fresh each morning and will not be for sale at the market until mid-morning.  If you have reserved some, we ask that you arrive after 12 noon please.  We need time to pick them, transport them to the market, and package them before they can be sold.
3.  Once we have an estimate of our picking numbers for the day, we will accept “same-day, set aside” orders.
4.  To have us hold some for you or if you have questions, please call us at (269) 244-5690.
5.  We do not accept orders left on voice mail.  If we miss your call, leave your name and phone number, and one of our staff will call you back as quickly as possible.
6.  All orders must be picked up by that day’s closing time.  When you place an order, please give us an estimate of about what time you are picking them up.
The Recipe Rack
Ideas for Using Rhubarb and Strawberries
With strawberries in season, now is the time to make your favorite strawberry desserts and salads!  The season is short!  Visit our strawberry recipe page on our website.

And while there is still rhubarb available, try some tasty strawberry-rhubarb combinations.
Happenings on the Farm
The weather extremes are not helpful for fruit and vegetable growing, and frankly not for us humans either.  Sweatshirts and heat one day, short sleeves and air conditioning the next.  Our heat loving plants like tomatoes, peppers, basil, and eggplants DID NOT appreciate the cold nights this past week, fortunately we still had enough plants to replace the ones that didn’t make it.

We spent the week opening all the greenhouse doors because it was too hot, vs. closing them back again with the heat on.  We have tried picking strawberries daily despite how slow they are ripening with the cool weather.  This week we hope to finish planting our flower gardens, so please bear with us as we finish.  It’s always so hard to plant a flower garden and then have to wait for the plants to fill out nicely!

In the Greenhouse
Things are really happening in the greenhouse, but our favorite part is seeing the tomatoes turning red.  It won’t be long now, and the cucumbers are really coming along.
Our mini tomatoes quickly grew very tall!!!
Thank you for your continued support and for buying local.
Everyone at Corey Lake Orchards wishes you a happy June!
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