Schramm’s Orchards

Things have finally slowed down a little bit at the orchard after a fairly insane June and July! Great year for currants, tough year for cherries. These red currants will be going into our YEAR SIX blend, believe it or not! Time has been flying by and we are so excited to share even more of our delicious, hand crafted meads with you all 🌳♥️

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Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there, especially our orchard dads 🌳♥️ Thank for all you do to keep things running! These hardworking guys will be celebrated by the Fam Schrammily today and everyday. We love you!!

We love rainbow eggs, but this monochrome dozen has our heart this week! 🤎

Surprise release, batch twelve available while supplies last ♥️🌳

Gooseberry Growth! 💚

This year the gooseberries are absolutely loaded. We’ve got more berries than we’ve ever had before and they’re maturing ahead of schedule. We’re growing Hinnomaki Red, Hinnomaki Yellow, and Pixwell varieties, which are each known for their unique flavor. These berry varieties can taste vastly different, just like the difference between Riesling grapes and Cabernet Sauvignon.

Our gooseberry bushes are about two weeks ahead of their typical growth schedule, promising an excellent and early harvest. All of these gooseberries will contribute to our “Year Six” blend and our next batches of varietal meads, where their distinctive flavors will be isolated. Another beautiful day in Michigan 🌳♥️

Cherry Update 🍒

We’re starting to see some baby green cherries forming, and despite some losses to frost, the fruit set is looking solid.

As the cherries grow, they gradually change from hard and green to yellow, to a blush orange, and then to a deep red color when they’re almost ready to harvest. Schaerbeek cherries get extremely dark, nearly black when they are fully ripe.

Don’t be afraid to ask us questions about our operations, we really want to talk about the orchard with you. And thanks for sticking with us through all the challenges—it’s your support that turns these cherries into the mead that you know and love 🌳♥️

Honeyberry Harvest Underway 💙

We’re excited to share that this year’s honeyberries are looking awesome! These honeyberries will go into Year Six along with the rest of the berries and cherries that don’t yet produce enough fruit for a varietal batch.

We’ve said it before — making estate mead is absolutely a labor of love. We can’t wait to take this season’s harvest and turn it into something special too. Thanks for helping us keep going — your support is the only thing that lets us make these meads a reality.

The love that we put into our estate meads is a year round effort. We genuinely believe you can taste it in the glass ♥️

EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT!

The season for working with our honey bees is almost upon us! As we prepare for a successful 2024 season with our own honey bees, we have the amazing opportunity to be able to offer HiveIQ products — amazing Australian-made insulated hives designed for commercial beekeeping as well as beekeeping at home.

We are the first and as-yet only reseller of HiveIQ products anywhere in the East North Central states of Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin. Order now for pickup in Ferndale or in Rochester Hills, MI or contact us for shipping details.

Check out the U.S.-style 9-frame hive kit and other accessories available soon. We are interested in bringing on more high-quality beekeeping supplies. If you want to recommend we carry something you need for your bees, send us a note: [email protected]

As the dreary, grey, Michigan winter days drag on, the first glimpse of sunshine has us yearning for spring. For new growth, for signs of life, for that first warm day, for touching the dirt in the garden, for Schaerbeek cherry blossoms. We're so close, friends. Spring is coming 🌳❤️

Our first Bachelors Button, Dahlia, and Cosmos of the year! This year we will have more pollinator friendly flowers than any year past. We can’t wait to share our bouquets with you at our Farmers Market again this year 💐

Did you know that Schramm’s Orchards is actually three separate locations? All three grow peaches, apples, raspberries, and cherries, but each property grows other fruits or vegetables! This is and ‘s front yard farm! This year they are growing potatoes, peppers, tomatoes, hops, cucumbers, garlic, onions, asparagus, dahlias, herbs, and a large strip of pollinator friendly flowers! They also have a dense bramble patch with boysenberries, blackberries, calafate berries, tayberries, loganberries, and wine grapes like Pinot Noir. If you’ve ever thought about turning your front yard from grass to food — this is your sign!

We are so excited to finally be keeping our own bees at the orchard! has been completely obsessed with beekeeping this year and dove head first into craft. It will be exceptionally cool the first year we make an estate mead with our own estate honey 💛

Did you know that our friend Rich is a local beekeeper and he keeps bees at our orchard? He makes the best smelling beeswax candles we have ever encountered and they make the perfect stocking stuffer! Checkout for honey, chocolate, and candles that we have for curbside pick up in Ferndale 🍯🕯️

31° and snowing just a few days ago, 71° and sunny today! Many of our pepper plants were protected from frost due to extremely dense plantings. There is nothing better than harvesting in late October on a beautiful warm day, as opposed to a freezing cold late-night scramble like we usually end up doing before the first hard freeze 😅 Feeling extremely grateful for this warm spell!

In case you’re wondering, yes, Sarah is still out there picking away ♥️ Which estate mead are you most looking forward to drinking in the coming year?

Since well before Schramm’s Mead opened, Ken Schramm was exploring the depth of flavor fruit meads could yield. His first batch of mead was a raspberry mead in 1988. Over three decades later, Schramm’s “Raspberry” is still one of our absolute best sellers. Varietal meads have also become instant favorites in the Schramm’s Mead line-up, like “Heritage”, “Maravilla”, and our upcoming raspberry varietal release, “Meeker”. These meads showcase the clarity and purity of a single variety of raspberry. Raspberries and honey are a beautiful and natural pairing, easily creating balance between the tart, high acid berries and sweet, floral honey. We can’t help but feel a jolt of excitement as we harvest our golden raspberries. Their stunning shades of yellow and blush, combined with their unique flavor, have us thinking of the future of our estate meads — what they will look like and how we can push to reach the pinnacle of raspberry flavor in our each of our raspberry meads. Stay tuned. We’re only getting started.

Picture One - Double Gold, Fall Gold, and Anne Raspberries

Picture Two - Caroline and Heritage Red Raspberries

Farmers Market today until 4pm! Stop by for farm fresh eggs, produce, honey, beeswax candles and mead ♥️ We’ll be back next weekend 10am-4pm.

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Harvesting in September >>> July

Cooler temps, lower humidity, fewer mosquitos! Beautiful fall raspberries.

We hope you can join us tomorrow for our Farmers Market from 10am to 4pm! Farm fresh eggs, local flowers, garden tomatoes, squash, zucchini, beeswax candles, honey, mead, and more 🌻

Reminder — Our Mini Farmers Markets have moved to Sundays for September! We will not be having Wednesday night markets moving forward, but we hope you can join us on Sundays from 10am to 4pm 🌻

This year was my first year growing carrots and I’ve learned so much. W**d management is very important for carrot growth in my experience and so is spacing! We ended up with many, many tiny carrots, which are incredibly delicious and honestly fun to look at it, but that’s where the fun ends. Small carrots are more time consuming to clean and so far they don’t seem to stay firm as long as full-size carrots. Next year I’m going to try growing them in containers so that I can have better control of the weeds, the spacing, and the soil. Carrots will grow straight and long in loose soil and compost, and I think we may have too many roots and too much clay in the field. Next year we’ll be growing even more colors of the rainbow 🥕

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