Concord Ridge Fruit Farms

Although it has been a challenging asparagus season with the cool temps, the recent upper 80-90 degree temps. have had us picking sometimes twice a day! We still anticipate having asparagus for another week or more, so stop by and pick some up for the freezer. To order a large quantity, please give us a call or e-mail us to place your order at (269)684-5865. Our FREEZER SPECIAL is 10 or more lbs. for $1.50/lb. For smaller quantities, we are at $2.00/lb. We also have rhubarb at the fruit stand while quantity lasts!

Terry and I walked the strawberry fields tonight, and were happy to finally see a few of our early variety strawberries beginning to ripen! Our first varieties will include Honeoye and Wendy and are a great tasting strawberry. We hope to begin picking sometime next week, depending on the weather. Our U-Pick will not open until sufficient quantities are available to meet demands. Please keep an eye on the website as I will keep you up to date on this.

Our sweet cherry orchard is loaded with rapidly sizing cherries, which should be available towards the end of June. We have 9 varieties of cherries from early to late, so we should have cherries available at our fruit stand for several weeks. We hope the warmer temps. will continue to help ripen and size our crops. This will help our crops catch up from the cooler than normal temps. we have been experiencing.

 Look forward to seeing you all soon! Tina

We are currently now selling our homegrown Michigan asparagus! With the onset of the warm (hot) weather, it has really pushed the asparagus into production! We are selling our 1lb. bundles for $2/lb. We do offer quantity discounts for 10 or more lbs! Come on out and start enjoying Michigan’s first fresh vegetable of the season. Asparagus is great so many different ways whether you like to grill, steam, or roast it and the best part is that it is SO good for you! Call with any questions at (269)684-5865 or send us an e-mail!

The warm weather has also really made our homegrown Michigan strawberries grow like crazy! We are beginning to see a few varieties start to bloom which means we should have strawberries within a couple of weeks.  A favorite season of so many, we are anxious for another great strawberry season!

I for one, am glad to see the winter of 2010/2011  in the past!  I’m sure you will all agree that with record breaking snowfalls, it was a very long winter. We were sure glad to turn the calendar to April and welcome the warmer temps., greener grass, and lovely spring flowers!

We are anxiously awaiting the start of our homegrown asparagus season.  We know many of you, too, are craving the first fresh vegetable of the year after such a long winter! Looks as though things will be a little later this year as opposed to last year.  We need warmer weather to warm the ground allowing the asparagus to grow and become productive.  We will let you know as soon as we pick our first batch and will have it available at our fruit stand.

We have stayed very busy this spring getting everything trimmed and ready for a new year. Temperatures have

remained relatively cool preventing an early budbreak like last year.  We are hoping and praying that we get a gradual warm up and avoid a spring freeze. We have a lot of exciting things going on at our farm this year including plans for a new strawberry field.  We look forward to seeing you all again and are excited and so thankful to begin another year.

Red Raspberries -Well, it seems as though the summer is going very quickly as usual and a hot summer it has been. Our red raspberries are in full production and it is a bumper crop! We are currently offering at our fruit stand picked raspberries for $3.50/pint or 2/$6.00. Our U-pic price is $2.00/lb. We are open daily from 9am-6pm. We also do have some black raspberries as well but have a limited quantity. If you would like to order flats, please give us a call at (269)684-5865. We are selling picked flats for $30.

Also at our fruit stand we are currently selling locally grown sweet cherries and blueberries. Sweet cherries will be done in about a week and our blueberry season is just beginning!

Coming up soon……Michigan peaches!!!

Picked Strawberries:

We are now picking our homegrown Michigan strawberries daily. Our hours are 9:00am-7:00pm and are open 7 days/wk. Our price for picked strawberries is $3.00/quart or $20.00 for an 8 quart flat. Our strawberry season lasts for 2-3 weeks depending on the weather.

U-Pick Strawberries:

Our U-Pick will be open beginning Thursday, June 3rd. We will supply you with a container or you can bring your own. We charge $1/lb. for our u-pick strawberries. Our hours are 9am-7pm, 7 days/wk. We offer nice, clean fields with lots of beautiful berries!

Asparagus Update:

We are sadly winding down towards the end of our asparagus season. It certainly was a great year for asparagus and we hope you all enjoyed it! We will have asparagus available for only a few more days so come on out and stock up while you still can.

Hope to see you all soon!

Tina