More than 150 family farms. One handshake at a time.
We do not own every orchard. We represent the families who do, across six growing regions in Michigan, New York, Wisconsin and New England.
Why It Works
Great fruit needs a bigger table.
Family farms grow exceptional fruit. What they do not have is the scale, the sales team, or the retail relationships to move it. Large retailers need volume, consistency and traceability that no single farm can deliver alone.
We connect the two. Most of our growers have been with us for decades. Many are working their fifth or sixth generation on the same ground.
Local sourcing is not a marketing angle for us. It is the entire supply chain.
Where We Farm
Six regions. One season.
Every region brings a different harvest window and a different crop mix. Together they extend the season and protect supply. Grower counts shift season to season with crop size.
63
Fruit Ridge
Sparta, Conklin, Kent City, Casnovia.
Apples
27
Northern Michigan
Traverse City, Leelanau, Old Mission.
Sweet cherries, apples
18
West Michigan
Hart, Shelby, Mears, Fremont.
Vegetables, apples
15
Southwest Michigan
Hartford, Watervliet, South Haven.
Apples, vegetables, stone fruit
19
New York
Hudson Valley, Lake Ontario, Champlain.
Apples
8
Wisconsin & New England
Driftless Area, Door County, Maine.
Apples
Family Farm Profiles
Behind every label is a family.
Grand Rapids, Michigan / Sixth Generation / Farming since 1903
Rasch Family Orchards
For more than 120 years the Rasch family has grown fruit along the Fruit Ridge. What started when their great-great-great-grandfather emigrated from Germany is now a sixth-generation orchard. Don, Jake and Nick Rasch farm 550 acres today.
Known for Gala, Honeycrisp, Fuji and peaches, they pair generational experience with GPS orchard planning, precision fertilizer application, drip irrigation and integrated pest management. The family motto, “WWED, What Would Ed Do,” honors their late Uncle Ed.
Conklin, Michigan / Sixth Generation / Farming since the 1850s
Homestead Orchards
The Dietrich family has farmed West Michigan since the 1850s. Today Jim, Mike, Adam, Curtis and Trevor Dietrich manage more than 600 acres of apples and sweet cherries across Ottawa, Muskegon and Leelanau counties.
Fruit Ridge growing conditions, modern frost protection and careful orchard management produce consistent quality. Every decision, from rootstock to harvest timing, comes back to flavor and freshness.
Fremont and Shelby, Michigan / Sixth Generation / Farming since the 1890s
Roossinck Orchards & Third Day Orchard Company
The Roossinck family settled in West Michigan in the 1890s. Eric and John Roossinck, joined by sixth-generation grower Evan Roossinck, produce premium apples across orchards in Fremont and Shelby.
Known for Honeycrisp and Gala, the family rebuilt the operation around high-density plantings, GPS-guided orchard design, frost protection, precision irrigation and cover crops. Their line is “Generations of Quality Fruit.”
Hartford, Michigan / Third Generation / Farming since 1942
High Acres Fruit Farm
Glenn Meachum started High Acres on 40 acres in 1942. Three generations later it spans roughly 7,000 acres of apples, asparagus, strawberries, grapes, tomatoes, grain and prune plums, with Honeycrisp and Spencer Brand tomatoes leading.
Farming high ground near Lake Michigan, the Meachum family invests in AI, automation and precision agriculture while holding to stewardship, accountability and faith.
Gays Mills, Wisconsin / Fifth Generation / Farming since 1913
Sunrise Orchards
Sunrise sits among the hills and river valleys of Wisconsin’s Driftless Area, land the last glaciers never touched, which turns out to be excellent ground for flavorful apples. The Teach family has farmed it through five generations.
Honeycrisp and McIntosh are the specialties. American Fruit Grower named Allen Teach its Apple Grower of the Year, though the focus has not changed in five generations.
Sparta, Michigan / Sixth Generation / Orchards since 1995
Riveridge Land Company
Riveridge Land Company is the Armock family farm, now in its sixth generation. It planted its first 220 acres of apples in Sparta in 1995 and farms 860 acres of its own ground on the Fruit Ridge today.
It is the only farm Riveridge owns. Every other orchard in the network belongs to the family that grows it, which is the whole point of how this company was built.
The same families grow it and pack it.
Rasch, Roossinck, Dietrich and Teach are in the orchard and on the packing line. Four of the families you just met also own and operate packing facilities in the Riveridge network.
That is why our packs are consistent. The people responsible for the fruit at harvest are the same people responsible for it at grading, storage and shipment. Nobody hands off and hopes.
By the Numbers
Local is not a label for us.
When a retailer asks where the fruit came from, we can name the family, the farm and the county.
150+
Family farms
123
Michigan farms
6
Growing regions
60%+
Of Michigan’s fresh apple crop
Questions
Grower questions, answered.
How many farms grow for Riveridge?
More than 150 family farms across Michigan, New York, Wisconsin and New England. The count shifts season to season with crop size.
Are Riveridge apples grown in Michigan?
The majority are. 123 of them are in Michigan, concentrated on the Fruit Ridge north of Grand Rapids and across Northern, West and Southwest Michigan.
Does Riveridge own the farms?
No. Riveridge represents independent, family-owned farms and remains family-owned itself, at a time when many farms and produce marketing organizations across the country are being acquired by private-equity firms.
What do Riveridge growers produce besides apples?
Sweet cherries, apple cider, peaches, prune plums, asparagus and a full range of Michigan vegetables.
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