The Metro: Fall favorites to check off your bucket list

October 14, 2025
Apples from the orchard run by Jon and Brittany Klimstra. They were ready to install a solar array when the federal funding was frozen.

Apples from the orchard run by Jon and Brittany Klimstra. They were ready to install a solar array when the federal funding was frozen.

Fall is here, and that means cool nights, crispy leaves and the smell of hot apple cider. But the season won’t last forever, and there is a lot of fun to be had at Michigan’s apple orchards, cider mills and corn mazes.

Laura Herberg, reporter for Bridge Michigan, joined the Metro to share the highlights from her recent story, “Five ways to fall for fall in Michigan.”

What’s on your winter bucket list? Laura Herberg and Bridge Michigan are taking your  suggestions.

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  • David Leins is the senior producer of WDET’s daily news and culture program, The Metro. He has produced several award-winning podcasts and multimedia series at WDET including Tracked and Traced, Science of Grief and COVID Diaries, which earned a National Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Innovation. He previously led WDET’s StoryMakers program. David has an M.A. in Media Arts and Studies from Wayne State University, and a B.A. in anthropology from Grand Valley State University with a minor in Arabic. David teaches podcasting at Wayne State University and is an alumnus of the Transom Audio Storytelling Workshop.

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