Fresh Picks and Floral Bouquets 🥀 7-16-2025

Closed      Monday
9 to 2       Tuesday
Closed      Wednesday
9 to 4       Thursday
9 to 6       Friday
9 to 4       Saturday
9 to 2       Sunday

Our many flower gardens by the market continue their summer bloom season!  Our weekend Flower Bar has continued to be popular.  It’s a nice way to personalize a bouquet with the size, type, and colors you want.  Flowers are best picked early in the morning before the day’s heat.  We pick them early and keep them in water and shade, giving you time during our business hours to “pick your own” from our display table!

And we have a market full of “fresh picks” – produce straight from the field!  Stock up and eat well while the summer season is here!

July is National Blueberry Month!  Find facts on this fabulous fruit and reasons you should eat more of them at the end of the newsletter.

We hope to see you this week!

• Blueberries – In season, already picked and u-pick.
• Summer Vegetables –now and continuing through August.  We have a wide variety of vegetables; there is something for everyone.
• Sweet Corn – we are hoping within 10 days, weather has caused some early corn growing issues
• Canning Tomatoes – probably starting early August
• Peaches – typically August.  We no longer grow any but will try to get some from another farm.
• Summer Apples – Lodi, our first apple of the season, is ready.  Summer variety apples are typically softer and tarter, good for applesauce, fresh eating, and cooking.

With the many people picking last weekend, many of the bushes are now emptied, which was our goal!  Thanks.  There are still some to pick, but not as plentiful as they were earlier.  Our small field is mainly a place where you can bring your family for a berry picking experience and leave with a few to take home.

• Blueberries – pints, quarts, 5- and 10-pound boxes
• Summer vegetables – carrots, cucumbers, broccoli, cauliflower, kohlrabi, zucchini, yellow squash, red potatoes, onions, green beans, garlic
• Greenhouse tomatoes and cucumbers
• Lettuces and produce from Bankson Lake Farms (produce arrives on Friday mornings and typically lasts through the weekend)
• Assorted fresh baked goods including ‘take and bake’ fruit pies and strombolis
• Local products – maple products, honey, jams, jellies, and salsas, Jake’s meats, milk, eggs, cheeses, yogurt, and ice cream
• Alcohol products – hard ciders, wines, spirits
• Nice selection of gifts made by our local artisans, perfect for birthdays, hostess, pet/house sitters, or yourself!
• Ice-cold slushies – small and large, in three flavors.
• U-pick herbs – see the sign on each row for what is available.
• Fresh flowers from our Flower Bar.  Make your own bouquets with flowers harvested from our farm.

Make someone’s day with our simple ‘single flower’ gift.  For $1.50, select a single, elegant flower (50 cents) to place in one of our $1 vases.

Greenery to fluff out your bouquet is complimentary.  We also sell various vases if you need one.

If you miss us, please leave your name and phone number on the recorder and someone will call you back to get the details and confirm.  We do not accept orders left on voicemail.

Pickling Cukes – Bulk Quantities
Most of our pickling cucumbers are 3 to 4 inches due to the heat making them grow so quickly.  They will work for bread and butter pickles or cut into spears for dill.

In our freezer section, just “bake and enjoy”:
–Fruit pies in assorted farm fresh flavors, large and small
–Stromboli’s – various types in breakfast, sandwich, and pizza styles

Freshly baked (whenever we are open)
–Assorted cookies, breads, and muffins

Freshly baked – Friday through Sunday
–Homemade cinnamon bread and cinnamon rolls, a favorite of many of our customers
–Moe’s focaccia breads – Rosemary olive and Tomato basil
–Mini, already baked fruit pies

Freshly baked – Saturday and Sunday
–Donuts – buttermilk, blueberry, and cherry flavors
–Iced “googly” eye yeast ring donuts

Try one of our fermented vegetable varieties from Safie Specialty Foods!  They are Michigan grown and perfectly pickled.  Serve chilled, a relish for any meal.  Find pickled asparagus, snap beans, beets, carrots, and bread and butter pickles.

Have you tried our Unwinding Rose wine?  It is a white zinfandel Rose’ style that is semi-dry and fruity with berry character that brightens any occasion.  Chill a bottle, open, and let the unwinding begin!

Basil Limeade
Head over to our herb garden for fresh basil to make a refreshing limeade!

According to the Michigan Ag Council:

• In 2023, Michigan produced more than 87 million pounds of blueberries on nearly 17,000 acres.
• Michigan is a top producer of blueberries in the U.S. with over 20 varieties grown.
• Michigan blueberries are grown, harvested, and processed by 600 family farms
• Most of Michigan’s commercial blueberry production is located in southwest Michigan where sandy glacial soils and high-water tables result in excellent blueberry soils.
• More than 50 percent of Michigan blueberries are shipped to the fresh market, with the rest frozen, pureed, concentrated, or canned for value-added products

And blueberries are good for you!

• Blueberries have only 80 calories per cup and virtually no fat
• Blueberries have consistently been recognized as the fruit with the highest antioxidant activity
• Blueberries are also packed with vitamins, including A and C, both which support a healthy immune system (One serving contains almost 25% of the daily vitamin C requirements).
• Blueberries are also a good source of manganese, for bone development, dietary fiber, for heart health, and polyphenols which possess anti-inflammatory properties.