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2025 Harvest Season, BearDance, Cherries, Flathead Lake, Montana, Fruit, Fruit Growers, Garden, Orchard, Random Fun, Sweet Cherries, To Order, U Pick

We are all waiting together.

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Getmans’ Orchard, BearDance, Mt.

Perfect, the beauties grow and there is not a cloud in the sky.

The Orchard is in her, ” enjoy the process”, ritual. The waiting gives time for joy in the observations and the work. This is watering time. This is the Orchard’s TLC time when cherries gain size and flavor. The ground around each tree is tended. The area is kept moist. Attention is on the trees while we patiently let them develop their natural, crisp, sweetness.

Clean air, great soil, and perfect water provide the essential ingredients to produce prime sweet cherries.

Yes, we are all interested in the expected Ripening Date. Today, our guess is July 18, 2025

Read below for instructions to visit.

This is our evidence that the Orchard’s environment is in good order. These fragile creature are happy here.

Flathead Lake is Glorious

There is no sleep now

The Florescent Glow In the Evening Sun.

INSTRUCTIONS

Call 406-871-5499 for Appointment, Instructions, and Directions

We will be open from 8 am until 1 pm

Wear walking shoes that cover your feet, not sandals.

Bring your boxes or coolers for your cherries.

You may order: call ahead to pick up cherries.

2023 Season, Apples, Plums, Pears, Fruit, Fruit Growers, Orchard, Random Fun, To Order, U Pick

The Pickin’ is Easy, Autumn 2023

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Our apples, plums, and pears are ready. The 2023 weather has given us a beautiful and long growing season. We will be open for apple picking during the next few weeks.

Call Farmer Dan if you would like to visit the orchard. 406-871-5499.

Our branches are bending low, heavy with many different varieties of apples. The apples are delicious, crisp, and good for eating or baking. Guaranteed, our historical Macs make the best pies and deserts.

Our best applesauce making technique: Use a roasting pan. 1. Wash apples, peel apples, then chunk them into pieces. Simply, use a knife to cut the apple pieces into a roasting pan and toss the seeds and core into the compost. Any chunk is the right size! 2. Add a little sweetener and cinnamon, if you like. 3. Add a small amount of water, a few tablespoons. (enough to kick off a bit of moisture and steam. 4. Roast in the oven until the apples are tender, we like a few browned, savory tips.

There you have it, the most delicious applesauce without watching the pot or fighting hot spots and burning pot bottoms. To preserve: We jar the applesauce, add a lid, and put into the boiling water canner for ten minutes.

To make things really easy, we sterilize clean jars from the dishwasher in the oven, Place the jars on a cookie sheet and bake the empty jars for ten minutes in 350 degree oven. Boil the lids. You will have great applesauce throughout the year until next season. Homemade is far better than any purchased jar.

Sheryl Getman

2023 Season, Cherries, Flathead Lake, Montana, Fruit, Fruit Growers, Orchard, To Order, U Pick

PATIENCE

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Practicing Patience is required during this pre-harvest time in 2023. At the East Shore of Flathead Lake, our Montana weather teases with a rotation of warm days and cool days. Knock on wood, we have not had hail.

We understand you all will want to hear, quickly, about our upcoming harvest. In our orchard, we like to give some of our trees an extraordinary space for growth. This photo is of a special Lambert tree that survived historical winters when the entire area lost their trees. Enjoy this photo while you read our particulars.

The harvest will probably begin the last week of July. This is nearly impossible to predict. Today, June 25, 2023, from our current observations, we will guess, last week in July for our start. If you want to come to the orchard, call 406-871-5499 from July 24 until we finish around approximately August 19. Call a day, or two, before you want to visit. We will pick during mornings. 8:00 am. -1:00 pm. You must call and talk with Farmer Dan. We look forward to a fun season.

In the orchard, we need to know each tree as an individual. They begin to ripen at various speeds. Eventually, they come together to make our crop. We are seeing various phases and colors now. When growth is achieved, we stop irrigation to develop flavor. The trees tell us what to do. We work to have the best cherries we can produce.

The cherries today: “straw”, is the name for this phase. The name describes the color and growth period.

We made some New Work Here for Us

During this waiting time, we have planted the new peach trees. The blueberries are in the ground. This new work will produce fruit in the next seasons. Here is a photo of Farmer Dan with just one of our new blueberries. These plants are astonishing. We are excited about our new peaches and blueberries. There are 90 new peach trees and many blueberries.

Thank you!, Sheryl & Dan, Getmans’

Orchard and Vineyard

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It’s Harvest Time!

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Throughout the year our work is aimed at one targeted goal.  The goal is Harvest, with a capital ‘H’.   It feels like we hold our breath during the entire  year.  Determination and hard work will not bring it forth.  Projections, outlines, practices, or statistical data bases can never make it happen.

The Cherries.
The Cherries.

To succeed, each and all of the elements, the luck, the efforts, the intentions, the science, the grace, the physical labor……Well, everything has to come together.   To us, it is a celebration and a miracle.

Welcome to our site.  Our pages will hold tips, info, recipes and our news.  Contact information is easy to find.  Our building project for our new Orchard House will be updated from time to time.  Preserve lists are here.  Call us for u pick, cherry orders, or if you would like to visit.

This orchard & vineyard inspires art making in the studio, by Sheryl Getman
This orchard & vineyard inspires art making in the studio, by Sheryl Getman