This week our Director of Marketing & Orchard Owner, Mac Riggan, is live from our Washington Cherry orchards for a mid-April growth update! 🍒 #JoyfullyGrownCherries Elevation plays an enormous role in determining when cherries develop and can be harvested. Having our Cherry blocks at slightly different elevation levels can help make harvest much more manageable for growers & farm workers (and extend WA cherry season!). Shoutout to everyone out there working hard to bring a delicious 2024 Cherry crop to families everywhere.
Video Transcript:
It’s a 2024 cherry season we’re out again looking at uh cherry blossoms we’re in East Wenatchee and we’re at 750 ft in a bing Cherry Orchard and looking around here we’re in the middle of shuf fall the bees have done all their work and pollinated the orchard well very nice crop set on this tree probably better than last year so we’re looking here at what the bees have done and if you bring in here you can see this is all done and as this comes off there’s a really nice size cherry on there we’re in mwad about 550 ft we’re looking at a Chalan variety Orchard that we look at every year seeing some beautiful large cherries in here this this Orchard was very well pruned uh lots of big fruit you’re going to see some fruit over here that did not set it’s going to come off easy and drop off but that’s okay what’s left is going to produce a beautiful crop probably harvested around the first week of June we’re down in one of our Bing Orchards right next door to the Columbia River at about 400 foot elevation beautiful crop of bing cherries here one of the best sets I’ve seen in years as you look at the cherries you can see they’re really sizing up we’ve got some small ones here that will drop off these will drop off leaving behind a very nice crop to be harvested somewhere near 10th 12th maybe 13th of June one thing I like that I see here is all the cherries are looking very evenly mature which bodess for a nice quality crop when we come in to pick these.
