07/16/2026
We are very close to having 1,000 followers on this page. Besides being absolutely blown away by the support and community from you all, we are overwhelmingly thankful for every single one of you, even if you haven’t been out to check us out yet.
Since we have had a lot more people join us here, we figured we would share who the people behind Bismark Orchard and Gardens are and what we have to offer.
We are Greg & Sallie Stambaugh, and along with our youngest daughter Lyndsie, her husband Michael, and their dog Millie, we are the team behind everything we do here.
Greg and Sallie started this venture in 2021 as a fun thing to do in Gregs retirement from being a contractor. Together, they planted the over 300 fruit trees that you see when you pass by on Ionia Road, along with countless berries on the east side of the property. Every year, Greg maintains the trees and berry patches, along will Sallies help. You can usually find him switching irrigation over to a new row, w**ding potatoes or sweet corn, and making sure everything is growing as it should.
You can usually find Sallie w**ding and picking berries, starting seeds for their giants gardens, transplanting flower bulbs for her giant flower garden, and also making all the jams, jellies, and prep work that goes into the freeze dried fruit.
Lyndsie is the one writing this post. (Hi! 😊) I am the one who helped my parents create this page, business cards, and create posts and photography. I also help when I am able put in the orchard, gardens, and berry patches, and am always ready to serve as taste tester for anything my mother makes. I can usually be found about sunset taking pictures in my mom’s flower garden.
Michael is my husband. We were just married in March and we both help out where and when we can. Michael helps out with some of the heavier labor, as well as taste testing. 😜 He is also our w**d whacking specialist and if there isn’t much to be done for some rare reason, that’s usually where he can be found.
Millie May is the farm dog, and officially security of the orchard against ground hogs, raccoons, and rabbits. She enjoys being free to patrol and usually by the end of a full day has been successful in eradicating a rabbits nest or cornering another varmint that dares enter her property. She may eagerly come to great you upon your visit, but don’t be surprised if all you see of her is just her tail waging vigorously on top of a wood pile.
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We have a LOT to offer here at the orchard and are trying to add even more little by little every year until we are able to be open year round.
We currently have over 300 fruit trees in our orchard. We have apples, peaches, cherries, apricots, nectarines, pears, plums, and I am sure something else that I have forgotten that dad will remind me of. 😜
In our berry patch, we have ever bearing strawberries. While most strawberry patches are done for the season, we should have strawberries all the way up until first frost! We also have blackberries, black, red, and yellow raspberries. Also in our berry patch, but not a berry, is our asparagus patch.
My mother’s flower garden is FULL or gorgeous cut and come again flowers this year, and I am hoping to get a few bouquets picked to offer for the first time this year.
What do we have for produce you ask? What DONT we have…. We have tomatoes, potatoes, garlic, squashes, bell and hot peppers, and, my personal favorite, sweet corn.
We also have several varieties of jams and jellies made from fruit picked fresh on our property. All of our freeze dried fruits are made from our own orchard and berry patch. In the fall we will be having fresh pressed apple cider, and around Thanksgiving we will start having fresh cut Christmas trees.
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We love working together to provide our community with the freshest, most delicious produce and products that we can. If you’ve been following for awhile, but haven’t made the trip out, make this year your first. We would love to see you!
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Hours: seasonal (check out page for updates on when we are fully open on the in-season)
Location: 9879 Bismark Highway Vermontville MI 49096
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-Greg, Sallie, Michael, Lyndsie & Millie May
