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The Best Cider Mills and Apple Orchards in Metro Detroit

2018/09/06 By Jared Hoffman 1 Comment

Fall in Michigan is arguably the state’s best season. Football, falling leaves, cider and donuts, and apples provide endless amounts of activities for people of all ages. Metro Detroit is home to a wide range of cider mills and apple orchards, and these are our favorites:

Wayne County

Plymouth Orchards and Cider Mill has two Plymouth locations on Warren Road and Ann Arbor Road. The cider mill offers freshly made cider and donuts, Michigan products, a variety of organic products, and of course apples! Other activities include wagon rides, live music, and strolling through the U-Pick pumpkin patch.

Parmenter’s Northville is Northville’s second-oldest continuously operating business. The cider mill offers cider and donuts alongside all of your fall food favorites like apple butter, maple syrup, and caramel apples.

Parmenter's Northville. Courtesy of @jillianrosereed 

Parmenter’s Northville. Courtesy of @jillianrosereed

 

Macomb County

Blake Farms has three locations in Armada and Almont with Blake’s Orchard & Cider Mill being the most popular. The orchard offers apple, strawberry, cherry, and peach picking, U-Cut Christmas trees, cider & donuts, fresh produce, a hard cider & wine tasting room, a corn maze & hayride, a haunted house, and much more!

Aerial view of Blake Farms. Courtesy of @blakefarms

Aerial view of Blake Farms. Courtesy of @blakefarms

Miller’s Big Red Farms in Washington Township offers a one-stop shop for fall activities. Big Red’s Marketplace is a shopping destination for apple cider, local produce, baked goods, and much more. Activities include U-Pick apples & pumpkins, a petting zoo, a straw mountain, and a bounce house.

Oakland County

Yates Cider Mill has two locations: the main location in Rochester Hills and a second location at the Old World Canterbury Village in Lake Orion. Yates Cider Mill offers a variety of apples, cider and donuts, an ice cream shop, pony rides, and an apple tent along with great spots to have a picnic and take a stroll long the adjacent trails.

Franklin Cider Mill, located in Bloomfield Hills, is one of Michigan’s historic cider mills, and the cider and donut shop has been open since 1837. The cider mill offers fresh cider and donuts made from an old German recipe.

Historic picture of Franklin Cider Mill. Courtesy of Franklin Cider Mill.

Historic picture of Franklin Cider Mill. Courtesy of Franklin Cider Mill.

 

Want more apple orchard news? Check out Detroit’s future apple orchard on the east side of the city here.

 

 

By Allecia Jurkiewicz
Research Manager, JMJ Phillip Group

Filed Under: featured, Inspiring News Tagged With: 2018, Apple, autumn, cider mill, community\, DETROIT, DETROIT EVENTS, Detroit Good News, Development, donuts, events, fall, Investment, metro, Michigan, news, orchard, suburbs

Detroit Auto Show 2020 Moving to Summer, Possibly Outdoors

2018/07/13 By Jared Hoffman 1 Comment

North American International Auto Show 2018. Courtesy of NAIAS.

Detroit’s North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) has long been held in the cold, dark months of January in the windowless Cobo Hall downtown. Auto shows across the globe have been facing longer lists of no-shows in recent years and the prestigious event in the Motor City is no exception. Porsche, Land Rover, Mazda, and Jaguar were absent this past January and Mercedes-Benz and BMW are pulling out of the 2019 installment. As foreign and luxury car brands explore other avenues for marketing their new models, the NAIAS hopes to revitalize a struggling brand by making sweeping changes.

With new restaurants, hotels, and entertainment venues opening up every day in the city, the 2020 show will take advantage of the warm June weather across various indoor and outdoor venues around Downtown Detroit. The Detroit News suggests the show may take on more of a festival flavor inspired by the Goodwood Festival of Speed in the United Kingdom.

Goodwood Festival of Speed. Courtesy of Auto Addicts.

The Festival of Speed in West Sussex, England is a three-day event featuring “a hill climb, supercar runs and a moving motor show” and attracted around 200,000 attendees in 2017. For comparison, the latest Detroit Auto Show captured 809,161 people over 16 days (about 50,573 people per day).

The traditional June Grand Prix on Belle Isle and Ford fireworks will add to the festive feeling surrounding this new format, and interactive events and stands will draw more casual viewers downtown to participate in the warm weather. Auto shows everywhere are realizing that even car fanatics are bored with the stuffy showroom feel that has permeated its brand, but thankfully the Detroit show is adapting to ensure the ‘motor’ stays in the Motor City.

 

 

 

By Jared Hoffman
Senior Research Associate, JMJ Phillip Group

Filed Under: Infectious Ideas Tagged With: 2018, 2020, auto, auto show, automobile, Belle Isle, car, DETROIT, DETROIT EVENTS, detroit news, Downtown, Festival of Speed, Ford, Grand Prix, Motor City, news

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