Much of Macomb Township's fall calendar worth building a weekend around sits on one of five roads, and those roads run in numerical order: 22 Mile, 23 Mile, 24 Mile, 25 Mile, 26 Mile. This fall, that stretch has featured a family festival, four working farm markets, a 94-acre park, and a nature trail, each one waiting on its own mile marker like the township planned it that way on purpose.
It did not, at least not officially. Macomb Township's east-west mile roads are a Macomb County numbering convention, not a seasonal itinerary. But the businesses and the township's own parks department have settled onto that grid so consistently that the fall season here reads less like a scattered list of things to do and more like a corridor you drive once, stopping every mile.
The grid, mile by mile
Here is what actually sits where, based on current addresses and posted 2026 hours:
| Mile Road | What's There This Fall | Worth Knowing |
|---|---|---|
| 22 Mile | Fall Fun Fest, held Saturday, September 19 | 16125 22 Mile Rd, noon start, free admission |
| 23 Mile | Olejnik Farms & Greenhouse | Family-run since 1926, now into its fourth generation |
| 24 Mile | Schramm's Farm Market | 21701 24 Mile Rd, open July 1 through October 30 |
| 25 Mile | Altermatts Farm, next to Macomb Corners Park | Park is 94 acres, 35 developed, hosting township community events |
| 26 Mile | Kutcheys Family Farm, next to the 26 Mile Road Nature Preserve | Farm open mid-July through October; trail is a quiet seven-tenths of a mile |
Nobody is coordinating this. Olejnik Farms has been on 23 Mile since Adam and Victoria Olejnik bought the land in 1926, long before Macomb Township looked anything like it does now. Schramm's, Altermatts, and Kutcheys built their seasons around when Michigan produce actually ripens, not around each other. The park department picked 25 Mile Road for Macomb Corners Park because that's where the land was available. Nobody drew a straight line through this on purpose. It just ended up that way.
What that means for the produce run
If you have only ever shopped one of these four farms, the practical upshot is that you have been driving past three others without knowing it. Olejnik Farms, Schramm's, Altermatts, and Kutcheys sit on four consecutive mile roads, each about a mile apart, and as of this fall all four are still in their harvest window. Schramm's posted hours run through October 30. Kutcheys is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. through October. That gives a resident on the west side of the township a genuine choice between four different growers within a five-mile drive, each with a slightly different mix of pumpkins, apples, and late-season vegetables, rather than a single default stop.
The pairing of farms with public land on the same roads is not incidental to how residents actually use the corridor. Macomb Corners Park sits on the north side of 25 Mile just east of Luchtman Road, close enough to Altermatts that a Saturday morning can cover both a produce stop and a walk without much of a detour. The 26 Mile Road Nature Preserve, a 38-acre parcel east of Card Road, sits close enough to Kutcheys that the same logic applies on the next road over. Neither pairing is dramatic. Both are the kind of thing you only notice once you've mapped the mile roads against what's actually open on them.
Two events, one Saturday, two different addresses
The grid had one wrinkle worth knowing about even after the fact, because it will repeat next year on whatever Saturday the two events land on again. Fall Fun Fest and Bloom Fest Macomb were both scheduled for Saturday, September 19, 2026, but they were not at the same location. Fall Fun Fest ran from noon at 16125 22 Mile Road. Bloom Fest Macomb started at 10 a.m. at 20699 Macomb Street. Same Saturday, two addresses roughly a few miles apart, which meant a resident trying to catch both was working around a two-hour gap between start times rather than a single all-day event with two names. Anyone treating that weekend as one stop found out it was actually two, with the earlier one starting two hours before the later one.
What closes out the season
Two dates bookend the fall calendar on either side of the farm-market window. The Macomb Township Fire Department holds its annual Open House on October 4, 2026, the kind of event that draws families out regardless of what else is happening that weekend. At the other end, Dakota High School hosts its 30th Annual Fall Holiday Craft Show on Saturday, November 7, a long-running local tradition that effectively marks the point where the harvest-market season gives way to the holiday one. The mile-road stretch of farms, the park, and the trail rounds out the fall calendar, with each location following its posted hours.
The mall that isn't on the grid
One piece of the township's fall routine sits deliberately off this corridor. The Mall at Partridge Creek is technically across the border in Clinton Township, off Hall and Romeo Plank Roads, not on any of the numbered mile roads that organize the rest of the season. It functions as Macomb Township's retail anchor anyway, close enough that it shows up as a standard reference point in new-construction marketing for Macomb Township communities. This fall it's adding four new tenants, and two are worth knowing before a weekend trip. Cherry Republic, the northern Michigan retailer known for its cherry products, is opening a shop near the mall's main entrance. Nearby, The Noble Duck is bringing modern Japanese dining with live-fire cooking from Chef Omar Mitchell, the same chef behind Detroit's Table No. 2. Neither is inside Macomb Township's borders, but both are close enough to fold into the same day as a farm-market run without much extra driving.
For a sit-down dinner without leaving the township, Testa Barra has been doing Italian since 2017, run by husband-and-wife chefs Mike and Gabriella Baldwin, an outgrowth of the Baldwin family's original restaurant that opened here in 2004. It's the kind of place that doesn't need a fall promotion to be worth the reservation.
The short version
Macomb Township's fall calendar isn't spread across the township at random. Four working farms sit on four consecutive mile roads, each still in its harvest window through October. A park and a nature trail sit on two of those same roads, close enough to fold into the same trip. Two festivals landed on the same Saturday this September at different addresses, and the season closes with a fire department open house in early October and a decades-old high school craft show in November. None of it required coordination. It just settled onto the same numbered grid, one mile road at a time.
If you're thinking about what a home in this corridor is actually worth, and not just what's growing on it this fall, The Zibkowski Team can walk you through a free home valuation whenever you're ready.
