From Blossom to Bucket: A Year in a Cherry Orchard

cherries on branch with row of trees behind

Ever wonder how those delicious cherries make it from the tree to your bucket? At Mike’s U-Pick, we experience the fascinating annual cycle of our cherry orchard firsthand, and we’re excited to share it with you. The U-Pick Season Opens Imagine this: “It’s May and the cherries are ripe and ready to be picked! Yay!”…

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Cherry Farmers work on their cherry orchards year-round!

Mike, of our very own Mike’s U-Pick, was interviewed by Harvest Time at the end of January 2022 while he was out in the cherry orchard planting young new cherry trees. Harvest Time posted about this on their Facebook page; pointing out that while cherries are available for picking for only a short amount of…

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