More than 150 family farms. One handshake at a time.
We do not own every orchard. We represent the families who do, across growing regions in Michigan, New York, Wisconsin and New England.
Why It Works
Great fruit needs a bigger table.
The experience behind growing our produce runs generations deep. Our family farms grow exceptional fruits and vegetables, and we bring them together to create a reliable, one-stop shop for retailers.
As they say, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, and we agree. By working together on growing techniques, quality practices, food safety and more, we’re able to deliver the volume our customers need with consistency and traceability they can count on.
Many of our growers have been with us for decades. Even more are fifth- or sixth-generation farmers, still working the same ground their families have tended for generations.
Deep roots, shared standards and generations of know-how. That’s what makes us stronger together.
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.
Fruit Ridge
Sparta, Conklin, Kent City, Casnovia.
Apples
Northern Michigan
Traverse City, Leelanau, Old Mission.
Sweet cherries, apples
West Michigan
Hart, Shelby, Mears, Fremont.
Vegetables, apples
Southwest Michigan
Hartford, Watervliet, South Haven.
Apples, vegetables, stone fruit
New York
Hudson Valley, Lake Ontario, Champlain.
Apples
Wisconsin & New England
Driftless Area, Door County, Maine.
Apples
Family Farm Profiles
Behind every label is a family.
Sparta, Michigan / Sixth Generation / Farming since 1800s
Joe Rasch Orchards
Six generations after Adolph and Mary Rasch began farming near Sparta, Joe Rasch Orchards now grows roughly 450 acres of apples, led by Gala and Honeycrisp. Today, Joe and Mary Rasch operate the farm with Katie and Manuel Vargas.
Always willing to look ahead, Joe brought ideas home from working in New Zealand — including an early belief in a little-known apple called Gala. Today, that same spirit shows up in precision agriculture, more than five acres dedicated to pollinator habitat and a focus on teaching not just how orchard work is done, but why. Yet amid all that progress, an apple tree planted by the third generation still stands on the farm.
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 a private label tomato brand.
Farming high ground near Lake Michigan, the Meachum family invests in AI, automation and precision agriculture while holding to stewardship, accountability and faith.
Kent City, Michigan / Fifth Generation / Farming since 1873
Mark Youngquist
The Youngquists combine precision agriculture, integrated pest management and careful soil and water stewardship with a deep respect for those who farmed before them — guided by a simple philosophy: take it one day at a time and “do the next right thing.”
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.
Gays Mills, Wisconsin / Fifth Generation / Farming since 1913
Sunrise Orchards
Sunrise Orchards sits among the hills and river valleys of Wisconsin’s Driftless Area, where the Teach family has grown apples since 1913. Five generations have cared for this ground.
The Driftless landscape, untouched by the last glaciers, grows flavorful fruit. Sunrise raises a wide range of varieties, with Honeycrisp and McIntosh as specialties. American Fruit Grower named Allen Teach its Apple Grower of the Year.
Sparta, Michigan / Seventh Generation / Riveridge Land Company est. 1995
Riveridge Land Company
Those orchards represent only a portion of where our fruit comes from. West Michigan holds nearly 35,000 acres of apple orchards, and Riveridge markets at least half of that crop for growers throughout the region.
The same families grow it and pack it.
Many of the families you just met also own and operate packing facilities in the Riveridge network.
They are vested in every box that leaves the line.
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.
Family farms
Michigan farms
States
%
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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