Today, grower Gwen Godwin teaches us how important the sugar content in cherries is, and why we only pick them once they are perfectly sweet, ripe and ready for you to eat!🍒☀️
Video Transcript:
“My name is Gwen Godwin and I’ve been farming for 20 years. During Cherry Harvest you don’t want the fruit to be watery. The only time that there’s sugar in the fruit is when of rain or the irrigation part you want to turn that off and let the trees sit for three or four days to bring the sugars up into the cherries that make them the sweetest. Any stone fruit cherries, peaches, apricots, nectarines, all of those have to be three ripe to bring the sugar to it. We never pick fruit until it’s the proper sugar content – what we call “tree ripe”.”
