Orchards near Owosso, MI

Flushing

Haslett

This Clearview Orchards is an orchard outside Haslett, near Lansing in Ingham County — a different, unrelated business from the better-known Clearview Orchards in Watsonville, California. No local website confirms current crops or hours, so a call ahead is the reliable move.

Montrose

Montrose Orchards has grown apples at 12473 Seymour Rd. in Montrose since 1913, and the Hill family has run the 150-acre farm since 1926. The stand carries more than 30 apple varieties plus pears, blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, and sweet cherries, along with cider donuts and pies baked on site. Hours run daily 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. during harvest, shorter in winter.

Montrose

Montrose Orchards runs a working cider mill and U-pick orchard about 20 miles northwest of Flint, now in its third generation of family ownership. Pick your own apples, pears, strawberries, cherries, blueberries, or pumpkins, then stop at the bakery for cider and donuts from Debbie's Kitchen. The farm store also stocks jams, honey, maple syrup, and cherry juice, plus hayrides and a fall pumpkin patch.

Hemlock

Gary and Lynne Jacques grow more than twenty apple varieties on their family orchard outside Hemlock, including HoneyCrisp and EverCrisp alongside older standbys. The picking season runs long for Michigan — apples from July through November, with peaches, pears, and plums filling out the rest of the calendar. It's a small operation by design, run by the family that plants and prunes the trees itself.

Wolcott Orchard grows fruit on Coldwater Road near Mount Morris, Michigan, in Genesee County's orchard country north of Flint. No confirmed details on varieties or U-pick access are available online yet.

Argentine

Mueller's Orchard and Cider Mill has run continuously since the late 1880s, with the Mueller family at the helm since 1941 and now three generations deep on the highest point in Genesee County. The mill presses cider from hand-picked, in-season apples only — no drops — and bakes fresh donuts daily, including a seasonal pumpkin glaze in October. A remodeled barn adds ice cream and hot dogs, plus a corn maze and the Birchview Event Barn for private events.

Saint Johns

Fenton

Spicer Orchards in Fenton, Michigan is a full-season u-pick destination: strawberries, cherries, blueberries, raspberries, lavender, sunflowers, peaches, and apples each in their turn, tracked by a ripening calendar and crop hotline. The farm market adds a cider mill, bakery, fudge shop, and winery, while a 5K race series, corn maze, playground, and harvest festival keep families coming back.

Apple Lane Orchard sells u-pick apples, fresh cider, pumpkins and squash on North Center Road in Flint, along with baked goods from a local Amish bakery. A pumpkin patch runs in fall, and Christmas trees are cut later in the season, so the farm stays open well past a typical cider mill's closing date. It's a straightforward stop for cider and baked goods, not an attractions-heavy destination.