Last year, because of the late frost, much of the fruit crop of MI was destroyed. This year, we have fruit on the trees. Our family had never been cherry picking, so we did some research and found where the cherry orchards were - and oh my - acres and acres of orchards.
My brother and his family were over for a visit and so we trekked to meet Aunt Kathy in the cherry fields. We were not disappointed. As you can see, there were PLENTY of cherries in the trees. You could stand on the ground and pick plenty, but of course the challenge of climbing the tree to get the 'much better' ones at the top was not left on our children! I'm not sure if we bought more than we ate, but it was a fun experience. Stained fingers, lips and shirts, but well fed and a good time. I tried my hand at canning some when we got home and I wasn't as successful at that - I only got 4 of the 9 jars to seal, but we still ate up the produce!
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