Apple Season / Family Activities with Fruit Ridge Markets
2023-09-01 - 2023-11-16
our Local First Member, Fruit Ridge Markets, wanted to help out our community by pointing us in the direction of where to pick up local produce????
????Fruit Ridge Members raising or selling locally grown apples:
Apple Valley Fun Farm & Abandoned Acres Farm
Blok Orchards
Country Basket
Ed Dunneback E Girls Farm
Fruit Ridge Hayrides
Fryear’s Farm Market
Grange Ave. Market & U-pick Orchard
Hill’s Bros. Orchard and Cider Mill
Nelson’s Farm Market
Peach Ridge Farms
Rasch Cherry & Apple Market
Robinette’s Apple Haus & Winery
Rockford Farmers Market
The Market at SECOM
Snappy Apple Farm Market
Wells Orchards
Fruit Ridge Markets Members for Agricultural Tourism & the activities are highlighted below:
????Activities included: Corn Mazes, Hayrides, pumpkin patches, cider, doughnuts, & haunted corn mazes (NOTE: Apple Valley Fun Farm and Abandoned Acres Farm have haunted Mazes
on Saturdays evenings in October).

Apple Valley Fun Farm & Abandon Acres Farm
Country Basket
Fruit Ridge Hayrides
Rasch Cherry & Apple Market
Robinette’s Apple Haus & Winery
Wells Orchards
????Go to your nearest Apple Orchard this weekend and pick some juicy apples! They are in season from September – Mid November!
Visit Fruit Ridge Farms website here: https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://www.fruitridgemarket.com/farm-markets/?fbclid=IwAR24Mp0iY8fUy0z2uBdyPhf7EvI_6yqyV1v_eouqmeKfnDnq_fb6pyxCqks&h=AT35sVfBzVj_xpvijBWQzf72Z43SRcDNxwR2TNX9Wn-lJz02buPg0Qzn4pPkfEEZZu4zWL4jbsqG_CL0WYiUy4qZrYrnNbMEO9I8mJdWXYUHyBcrqbHGYU-UKuEufTFCFURz_LQslPNLkUdFJ-WWww

Pumpkin Painting
2023-10-01 11:00 - 2023-10-31 20:00 (America/Detroit)
For the month of October you can paint a pumpkin while enjoying your experience at Hancock. 10 piece paint kit, brush and pumpkin for $5. Look forward to seeing your creativity!

Thin Air Kellie Parker in conversation with Erin Craig
2023-10-24 18:30 - 20:00
Michigan author Kellie Parker, award-winning writer of YA fantasy and thrillers, will be in Grand Rapids to share her newest book in conversation with fellow Michigan YA author Erin Craig!
This event is free to attend. However it helps us in planning to receive your RSVP. Please register here so we know you plan to join us: https://sb-thinair.eventbrite.com
About the Book
Eight hours. Twelve contestants. A flight none of them might survive. A flight to Paris full of teenagers seeking opportunity turns deadly in this suspenseful, locked-door YA thriller. Perfect for fans of Diana Urban, Karen McManus, and Jessica Goodman.
Seventeen-year-old boarding school student Emily Walters is selected for an opportunity of a lifetime—she’ll compete abroad for a cash prize that will cover not only tuition to the college of her choice, but will lift her mother and her out of poverty.
But almost from the moment she and 11 other contestants board a private jet to Europe, Emily realizes somebody is willing to do anything to win. Between keeping an eye on her best friend’s flirty boyfriend and hiding her own dark secrets, she’s not sure how she’ll survive the contest, much less the flight. Especially when people start dying…
As loyalties shift and secrets are revealed, Emily must figure out who to trust, and who’s trying to kill them all, before she becomes the next victim.

About the Author:
Kellie M. Parker is an award-winning writer of YA fantasy and thrillers. She has college degrees in biology and nautical archaeology, but she’s always found her sense of adventure most satisfied by a great story. When not writing, Kellie can be found teaching her four children, camping, baking, and gardening. She lives with her family in west Michigan.
About the Conversationalist:
Erin A. Craig is the New York Times bestselling author of House of Salt and Sorrows and Small Favors. She has always loved telling stories. After getting her BFA in Theatre Design and Production from the University of Michigan, she stage-managed tragic operas filled with hunchbacks, séances, and murderous clowns, then decided she wanted to write books that were just as spooky. An avid reader, an embroidery enthusiast, a rabid basketball fan, and a collector of typewriters, Erin makes her home in West Michigan with her husband and daughter.

King Trivia at City Built!
2023-10-24 18:30 - 20:30
Join us for game nights in the taproom!
6:30 – 8:30pm
On Tuesdays we will play SURVEY SLAM! Get your team together and battle for prizes.
• $30 gift card for 1st Place
• $20 gift card for 2nd Place
• $10 gift card for second to last place
Local food trucks will be on-site for snack and dinner options.
