Seitz Family Farm - 475 North Fletcher - Dexter, Michigan
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N 42° 18.194 W 083° 58.607
17T E 254633 N 4687736
Paul Seitz and his son Eugene farm 475 North Fletcher.
Waymark Code: WMKFXT
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 04/09/2014
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In an article
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visit link) A 1990 visit to the Seitz Farm is described,
Paul F. Seitz, 81 , his wife and son, Eugene, greeted tourgoers by bringing out Paul's homemade red and white grape wines made from his own carefully tended grapes, and offered everybody a glass. There was home canned sweet cider for those who preferred it.
They also had an exhibit of pictures of farm activities and talked informally with visitors as they wandered around the yard and looked over the garden. Paul's grandfather Phillip Seitz acquired the farm in 1875, followed by his son Fred and Fred's son Paul.
Paul harvests 30-35 bushels of grapes a year which is all made into
wine. His father and he have furnished communion wine for their church (St. Paul's United Church of Christ, Chelsea) "going on near 100 years" he said.
Paul showed us his thriving butter crunch lettuce in cold frames. He plants peas on Good Friday. He thinks he gets better carrots if he plants them where the peas were the previous year.
Upon leaving, Paul said, "Come again. We'll go down in the wine cellar
next time ."
An old article in the Ann Arbor news at (
visit link) tells about a sow on the farm that delivered two littlers in two weeks.