Fruit Belt

A Fruit Belt is an area where a microclimate provides good conditions for fruit growing.

Fruit Belts are prominent around the North American Great Lakes region, notably West Michigan and western Northern Lower Michigan in tandem,[1][2][3] and the southern shore of Lake Erie.[4] The conditions that produce a micro-climate favorable to fruit cultivation are the same that produce lake-effect snow; therefore, Fruit Belts and snowbelts are often concurrent. The map at right shows Great Lakes snowbelts which cover a somewhat larger area than the fruit belt. Notably, there are no fruit belts in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. A Fruit Belt also exists in Central Washington State.[5]

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Notes

  1. ↑ "Fruit Growing Conditions". Southwest Michigan Fruit Belt Project. Archived from the original on 2008-09-08. Retrieved 2011-08-14.
  2. ↑ "Image of the Month: Fruit Belt". Archives of Michigan, Michigan Historical Center, Michigan Department of Natural Resources, October 2007.
  3. ↑ "The Fruit Belt" (historical marker S0155, erected 1958). Michigan Historical Commission, Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment. Webpage retrieved on 2010-06-29.
  4. ↑ "Lake Erie Concord Grape Belt: Concord Grape Belt Tourism". Concord Grape Belt Heritage Association. Retrieved 2013-04-06.
  5. ↑ Friedlander, Paul J.C. "Circle of Beauty". New York Times. Retrieved 2009-08-05. Reprinted in St. Petersburg Times, 1977-07-03.