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30th Annual National Strawberry Festival This Weekend


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The Freep has a feature on the decline of the big strawberry farms in the Ypsilanti-Belleville area and the strawberry business in general. This weekend (June 16-18) is the 30th anniversary of the National Strawberry Festival, which organizers say attracts 200,000 people annually. While the festival is a big success, the Freep writes:
Farmland has become worth more for houses than crops, and people have less time to drive out to the country and pick fruit. As a result, the five farms that once grew 100 acres of strawberries within a few miles of Belleville have dwindled to one - Rowe's.

Read PATCH WORK: Business has slowed, but Rowe family farm in Belleville keeps its strawberry-picking tradition in the Detroit Free Press
Belleville National Strawberry Festival web site

Posted/updated Jun 14, 2006
by Andrew McFarlane (Absolute Michigan)

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