Fresh from the Farm
Here’s where to buy ripe, luscious produce grown close to home
Welcome to our Michigan Summer Produce Guide—your path to the freshest, most flavorful fruits and vegetables you can buy this summer.
Because they’re farm-raised just down the road, or maybe a few counties over, they’re harvested and brought directly to market at the peak of flavor—not a week early to allow for shipping. To find anything fresher, you’d have to plow up the lawn and plant your own.
For this guide, we talked to farmers and farmers market managers across the five-county metropolitan area to find the freshest Michigan produce. Inside you’ll discover everything we did.
Just remember, growing seasons are approximations.
Mother Nature, of course, has the final word.
—Cynthia Moothart
