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2022 SEASON BEGINS SOON

Our cherry season will begin AUGUST 1, 2022. Our cherry season will last through AUGUST 15. The past, late, spring has brought us a beautiful crop. Farmer Dan has pruned each tree for beauty and easy picking. The ORCHARD has been tended, watered, and nourished like a garden.

Enjoy our serene, clean orchard. An exquisite time to relish the outdoors and clean air. We are a family owned orchard.

CALL 406-871-5499 for an appointment.

We cannot ship cherries during 2022.

2017 Harvest Season

A view of the Cherry trees to the south.

Cherries the week of June 24.

Cherry trees in our Eastern zone on this orchard.

Cherry harvest will be when the cherries are ready.  Our best guess is around July 20, 2017.  We will announce our harvest date for each crop here.  Raspberries are growing nicely and will be ready at about the same date.

Facts for our Cherry customers:  Call 406-871-5499 to arrange for an orchard visit for cherries.  These times are usually after 4 pm, when the fruit begins to cool down from the warm day.  On weekends, we offer early hours.  We try to work with everyone.

Cherries should be rinsed in cool water and placed in the refrigerator after you get them home.

Many people freeze cherries.  They can be great as snacks and frozen with pits spread on a cookie sheet and then bagged.  It can be great to have pitted, frozen cherries.  They are very popular for smoothies, sauces, salads, and in many recipes.

If you are making a mail order from us:  We will ship on our harvest day.  We use two day mail.  Alert for mail carrier when you know our ship date or before.  It helps to have a caring and supportive mail person who will not leave the box for the next day but will make a bit of an effort to get them to you.

For directions on how to order cherries, see our Order page on this website.

It’s Harvest Time!

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