Tree Ripened Peaches
Northern Michigan grown fresh juicy sun-ripened peaches
The 2026 crop is looking very good! We grow a variety of Northern Michigan peaches, including Reliance, Red Haven, Blazing Star, Glow Haven, Loring, and Sweet Star. These multiple varieties extend the harvest season over 5 weeks, allowing you to enjoy tree-ripened peaches from early August to early September at Ox Heights Farm.
You pick or pick up a bushel at the farm.
Come visit us at Ox Heights Farm and experience the beauty of Northern Michigan peaches. Our fresh juicy peaches are perfect for canning or enjoying fresh, and we use minimal to no pesticides.
Pre-order early!
We sell out quickly and only commit to producing 2,000 lbs of our fresh juicy peaches during 2026 (~40 bushel). We only offer pick-up on the farm at Ox Heights orchard because of challenges shipping soft juicy peaches throughout the US.
Pasture Raised Lamb
The Flock:
We offer fresh lamb cuts that are USDA packaged and available year-round for pickup throughout northern Michigan! You also have the option to order lamb online, whether you want an entire lamb or prefer to pick one up directly from our farm.
Our flock of 20 ewes is primarily Dorper, a breed specifically bred to excel on pasture. From these 20 ewes, we confidently provide 40 high-quality grass-fed lambs to our patrons annually.
The sheep are 100% grass-fed, and we practice intensive grazing during the growing season, moving the ewes and lambs to fresh pasture daily. This method drastically reduces our need to use de-wormers and results in lambs that have had minimal to no treatments.
Our lambs are born in April and are ready for processing in October when they reach 75-100 lbs. They spend their entire lives on pasture, cycling nutrients with much of our spring and early summer grazing occurring between the rows of our chestnut trees.
Our lambs are processed and packaged by RRR in Buckley, MI, a USDA-approved facility. If you choose to order an entire lamb, we will work directly with RRR to specify exactly how you'd like your lamb processed and packaged.
Pure Maple Syrup
Sugar Maple Trees
Sugar Maple Trees
We tap the sap from sugar maple trees on the edge of our orchards and roads. These maple trees have direct sunlight, large canopies, and are over 100 years old, allowing us to produce high-quality maple syrup.
Efficiency
Sugar Maple Trees
To reduce the amount of energy required to convert sap from sugar maple trees into maple syrup (40 gallons of sap is needed to make a gallon of syrup), we use a home constructed reverse osmosis (RO) system to concentrate the sugar in the sap.
Sweet heat and humidity
After removing water from the sap using the RO, only 10 gallons of concentrated sap from sugar maple trees is needed to produce a gallon of maple syrup. The wood stove that heats our home can accomplish the evaporation - providing heat and humidity and a touch of sweetness.
Syrup Available Year Round
Chestnuts and pure maple syrup are a perfect match! We maintain a small and sustainable operation, producing about 15 gallons of maple syrup each year from our sugar maple trees.
Worldclass forest Products
Farm milled hardwood lumber
Farm milled hardwood lumber
Farm milled hardwood lumber
Yellow birch, hard maple, and American beech rough sawn lumber available. Harvested from the land at Ox Heights. Air dried for years in our barn and ready for your flooring, molding, or cabinet project. Several thousand board feet available now.
Northern White Cedar
Farm milled hardwood lumber
Farm milled hardwood lumber
Hand harvested and custom-order cedar logs, flares, posts, and hand-pealed furniture-grade pieces. Harvested in winter in collaboration with our neighbor Scott. Contact us for availability and pricing.
Hand-turned bowls
Farm milled hardwood lumber
Christmas Greenery
Burls are from our woods and used to make some of the most elegant and unique wooden bowls available. Only 2-4 bowls produced per year. Contact Abby if you'd like to commission her to turn a bowl or pen for a wedding or anniversary gift that will be prized for generations!
Christmas Greenery
Maple and Birch Venner Logs
Christmas Greenery
We supply balsam fir, Fraser fir, white pine, red pine, and white spruce boughs for wreath makers across the Midwest. Roughly 20,000 to 30,000 lbs of greenery can be sustainably harvested annually.
Maple and Birch Venner Logs
Maple and Birch Venner Logs
Maple and Birch Venner Logs
Working with our neighbor Scott, we supply some of the finest sugar maple and yellow birch veneer logs available in the world. If you are looking for exceptionally clear and stable lumber, contact us for pricing and custom milling of a 'veneer' log.
Campwood and firewood
Maple and Birch Venner Logs
Maple and Birch Venner Logs
About 20 to 30 logger cord of firewood is cut with a chainsaw and split with a maul each winter. Keeps us in shape and is faster than a hydraulic wood splitter. Available for sale at the "Wood Samaritan" firewood stand near Hoeft State Park or for pick up at Ox Heights.