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Crisp Country Acres

Holland, MI

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Crisp Country Acres is a family farm on 120th Avenue in Holland, Michigan, run by the Visser family. The land has been in the family for more than 150 years, going back to the Civil War era, and the original farmhouse still stands. The name comes from Crisp, the old name for this part of the countryside. Over the generations the property raised cattle, hogs, soybeans, wheat, hay, corn and pickles, and at one point ran as a dairy.

In 2013 Doug, Mitch and Jon Visser started Crisp Country Acres as a sixth-generation operation. Today the family grows about 220 acres of produce, from asparagus and strawberries in spring to lettuce, carrots, tomatoes, potatoes, beans, squash and pumpkins later in the year. Greenhouses and a large cold storage (housed in part of an 1899 barn) stretch the season so fresh produce is available year round. The family describes its practices as regenerative, with a focus on flavor and nutrition, and waters crops with drip tape from its own wells.

The Vissers sell through their year-round Crisp Farm Store on the farm, at area farmers markets, to local restaurants and through a year-round CSA subscription. The store also carries eggs, honey, maple syrup, dry beans and canned goods alongside the produce.

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