It's not too late! Visit our Online Store for great holiday gift ideas for the cherry lovers in your life! We have several gift packages that include flat rate priority mail shipping - Order as late as December 19th for pre-Christmas delivery.

We'll be shipping our apple gift boxes until December 15th. Honeycrisp and Mutsus are a dynamite sweet-tart combination and a certain family or office party pleaser. We also have Gorgeous Galas, Jammin' Jonagolds and the Inimitable Ida Reds (perfect for apple pie).

Our Kewadin market is closed for the season, but we're open daily at the M-88 market in Central Lake from 10 until 5, and happy to help you with your holiday shopping. Betsy has a nice selection of apples and all our Montmorency tart cherry products, plus lots of Michigan gift items including DeKorne Honey, Michigan Maple Syrup, Michigan mints, cherry candies, handmade soaps and Bolga baskets.

About King Orchards... We are a first generation family farm. John and Betsy along with Jim and Rose King and the children make up the family. Our fruit stands and orchards are located at US-31 and Creswell Road in Kewadin (12 miles north of Elk Rapids) and 3 miles east of US-31 on M-88 (near the town of Central Lake, Michigan). We love the farming life and work hard to grow quality fruit.In addition to 130 acres of tart pie cherries, we grow 10 acres of Balaton cherries (a new tart cherry variety from Hungary), 32 acres of sweet black cherries; 95 acres of apples, including 20 acres of staked high-density plantings; 10 acres of peaches; 3 acres of pears; 2 acres of apricots; 12 acres of sweet corn; and 2 acres of garden vegetables (if we can keep Rose reigned in).

The orchard is situated on the highest ground in Antrim County. Looking west we can see Torch Lake, about 3 miles away, and Grand Traverse Bay and the Leelanau peninsula beyond that. The rolling hills and ridges here were formed by the glaciers and are called drumlins. They help to allow good cold air drainage, which is important to prevent frost damage. Our proximity to Lake Michigan's Grand Traverse Bay keeps the temperatures moderated in the spring and fall. Many people feel that the best fruit in the world is grown here in northwestern Michigan.