Roadside stands ripe for the picking

Karen Rennie has the quiet satisfaction manning her produce stand in Centerville Township.

The stand, on Townline Road about 1/4 mile east of M-22, was once part of the Eitzen homestead, now part of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.

For years, Rennie’s children, Peter and Christina, operated a strawberry stand on Co. Rd. 651. But they have since grown up and moved away.