A Story about the Adulation of a Sweet Cherry

Concerned thinking has been happening here. Acceptance is growing. Peace of Mind needs more fertilizer. Beauty is here, she consistently arrives. Farmer Dan says, “Quell worry and fear. Crease the forehead but pucker the lips into a smooch and a smile.”

We will stealthily tell our story: It began last fall when the green cherry leaves hung onto their trees longer. We waited for the leafy golden colors, waited, waited. The cherry buds grew. The buds became fatter and swelled. Baby cherries are born in the fall and then they gestate. The trees went to sleep. It was a restless sleep.

The trees awakened during some December milder temps. Then, January slammed our area. The freezing numbers were lower than we have experienced here.

Throughout this valley, we heard: “Minus 30 degrees, minus 40 degrees, minus 16 degrees.” Everywhere, “below zero.” Our buds were killed.

Our Adulation for this cherry is great. You will understand because this is the only cherry on its tree. We call it a “Singleton.

Yes, we are concerned for each of our customers. We have all been fortunate, We have enjoyed more than abundant crops over nearly 20 years. We have all polished off hundreds of thousands of pounds of cherries.

Our trees remain healthy and we care for them now. This year, we have zero sweet cherries for anyone.

We are sorry for our customers, for our families, and for our own jam pot. There are problems in many crops around the U.S.