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IT'S SWEET CHERRY TIME! 
Read "This Week's Feature" to the left for Details.
PICKING BEGINS THURSDAY, JULY 2ND AT 8:30 A.M.
U-PICK COST IS $1.50 PER POUND.
WE-PICK IS BY ORDER ONLY, CALL 616-299-4775
We invite you to visit
Steffens Orchard Market to pick apples, take home a fresh or frozen pie, and try our delicious jams and jellies. The season begins August 1 with a supersweet sweet corn, fresh Michigan peaches and blueberries. Small fruits such as plums, pears, apricots and red raspberries are available in season.
A variety of vegetables, including tomatoes, green beans, onion and winter squash will be available. We offer many other Michigan farm-grown products like canned cherry pie filling, dried cherries, frozen cherries and sliced apples, pickled asparagus and bread & butter pickles.
Steffens Orchards have both U-Pick and We-Pick apples available at our 80 acre farm market site. In addition, we farm another 200 acres in Alpine, Sparta, and Chester Townships. Currently the orchards produce fifteen varieties of apples and eight varieties of sweet cherries.
Good Things to Eat:
Apples, peaches, blueberries, cherries, and other fruits and vegetables; cider and caramel apples; donuts, fresh and frozen pies; cookies, dips, soups; jams, preserves, and fruit butters; toppings, syrups, salad dressings; salsas and mustards are available.
Other Items For Sale: Apple peelers, slicers, corers, canning items, Ball Canning books, various cookbooks, apple bread boards, sweet corn items, knives, handmade towels for the kitchen, etc. We also have several baking mixes and toppings for fruit crisps.
Fun Things to Do:
Pick your own apples or pumpkins; build a scarecrow at our Scarecrow Factory; tour the orchards on our orchard shuttle; play on the wooden tractor and hay wagon slide; measure heighth and take pictures with the Happy Apple Man; test your apple smarts; or enjoy the free Moonwalk for children while you shop.
Special Events:
Kent Harvest Trails runs from mid-September through Halloween. Watch for brochures at Spartan Stores or at our market.
Scarecrow building and a scarecrow contest celebrating "Harvest On the Ridge-Apple Festival" will be featured on September 25-26 in Sparta and at Steffens Orchards.
You can build your scarcrow for the contest or for your front porch, yard or garden at Steffens Scarecrow Factory. If we provide the materials, the cost is $15, if you provide the clothes, the cost is $10. Please make an appointment at 887-2404.
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