One day I asked my teenage help to rewrite our price board, with vegetables on one side and fruit on the other. I overheard her asking a co worker how to know which was which? "Vegetables are the foods your mom makes you eat and fruits are the foods you want to eat." As disconcerting  as that answer was, I suspect for many of our customers there is more than a little truth in that statement. We are very fortunate to live and farm in the fruit belt of Michigan. The proximity to Lake Michigan allows us to feast on so many wonderful fruits that are produced locally. Here at Diamond Acres Farms, raspberries are our #1 fruit. With our summer reds, our black caps and our fall reds, we pick raspberries almost continually from late June to early fall. We do not raise our own peaches, but they are both a personal and stand favorite. Slurpee juicy and picked at their prime from early July to mid September. I would eat more cantaloupe  and watermelons if I was not busy eating peaches. Michigan leads the nation in blueberry production so we have chosen not to raise our own, but sell hundreds of pounds a week of fresh handpicked blueberries. Pears and apricots are also popular, and last season we celebrated the plum, offering five varieties  daily to choose from. I do know some people who do not like strawberries. I respect their taste buds, but I dedicate myself to eating them during their too brief season in early June. Our apples are bred to be disease resistant, which allows us to limit our spraying, providing a welcome relief from the spraying that  commercial apples receive.

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