Sweet Cherries
It’s raining again this morning. When we have sweet cherries to pick rain is a real problem. The high sugar content in the cherry draws water through the skin and the cherry splits.
Category: Crop Updates & Orchard Talk
? of the day
There is one question everyone is asking. How long will we be able to pick sweet cherries? This year is so odd that I can’t say. My hope is that we will be able to pick through to next week end. There is a lot of fruit out there and if it stays dry the […]
Tart Cherry Crop Report
Betsy and John were out checking on the tart cherries this morning. They’re still a bit orange-y, so we’re looking at 4 to 5 days before prime picking time. Picking should be fantastic by this weekend (July 24th). We still have plenty of sweet cherries and red raspberries to pick. And we’ve opened one row […]
The turning point
Well today we began picking in earnest and u-pickers are showing up. This is the turning point when we start taking in money on the crops which have been getting a lot of expensive care. Usually we have stretched all of our financial resources out to the max just as the sweet cherry harvest (and […]
Sweet cherry picking starts today
To encourage lots and lots of Michigan cherry picking, we are rolling back our u-pick prices to 2006! We’re calling it our Cherry U-Pick Stimulus Plan (CUSP for those of you who love your acronyms). U-Pick Sweet Cherries: $1.50 per pound We-Pick Sweet cherries: $4.50 per quart We have a gorgeous crop of both sweet […]
Happy 4th of July!
We drove the golf cart in the Central Lake parade today! The market has been busy and the pies were piled high this morning. With no cherries ripe there has been more than one disappointed u-pickers. My standard answer is that we will pick some black sweets this week and try to get the u-pick […]
Cherry Crop Update
There are a lot of cherries on the trees, and all signs point to a good crop of both sweet and tart cherries. Our latest estimate is that sweet cherry picking will begin around July 10th, with tart cherries following a week to 10 days later. Betsy and Rose expect to have strawberries in the […]
cool spring
June 8th and Still cool here in Northern Michigan! I’ve noticed that my favorite way to cook asparagus is in the oven at 400 for 20 minutes. The added benefit of this recipe is that it warms up the kitchen. I have been making lots of asparagus soup also. Here is my favorite recipe Asparagus […]
Cherry Blossoms
Monday AM
Ok, I was wrong but I bet the apricots pop out today. This morning is so busy with activities. Workers driving the golf cart to plant trees. Shouts of directions to Josh to flail mow. This is a mower that chops the brush from trimming that years ago we used to burn. Casey is placing […]