Cherries are coming Soon
Imagining that very first cherry bite of the season!
The anticipation of the cherries and cherry season is growing! It is one of the year’s very special treats!
This time of year we try to plan. Plan the best we can. We clean the clean room, and we count the boxes and the pads, twice. And we try to control ourselves and not email Kevin more than once a day about when he might harvest the first of our cherries.
Kevin, you see, is our interface with his family orchards. And though, remarkably, he is pretty gosh darn accurate, predicting exactly when the fruit is primed and perfect for picking-at-their-peak, is a shot-in-the-dark. And, along with his brother, Mark, they manage to come pretty close to knowing when the pick will happen. It must be that the fruit talks to them.
The weather plays such an important variable, and the weather is not normal, to when the cherries are perfect, and it makes the countdown to harvest unpredictable.
Yet, we always plan, with great anticipation for the first crunchy bite of cherry! Every year we can’t wait and get so excited to pack the cherries! (If you pack, you get to eat the rejects, a very important of quality control)
And Cherry time is also when all those friends we haven’t seen all year start dropping by the shop…
In as little as 7 short weeks, the glorious cherry season will be upon us! Consider a quintet-of-cherries; one box of each variety as they are harvested, the perfect decadent summer treat to have and to give.
Not only do you get to see and taste the difference between the five varieties, you also have the opportunity to debate which is your favorite cherry variety from this year’s harvest. It’s truly an eye opening fun time when you see how nature changes from year-to-year, from variety-to-variety.
First up, is the light skinned Early Robin Cherry, a bigger, more snappy cherry than the famous Rainier.
It is one good tasting, juicy cherry! Quite frankly it is a positively delicious treat to start the year!
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