Local on the Farm!

It doesn't get any more local than this!  The sour pie cherries are starting to get ripe and should provide some excellent picking for a little over a week.  The cherries are in varying stages of ripeness, so we leave the top of the trees to the and harvest as much as possible from these 2 trees for pies and freezing for the off season.  FYI, these trees are "Granny Stark's Own" sour cherry trees - the variety name escapes me right now and their web-site is currently "being updated" so I can't look it up.  They have a heavy crop this year.  In years past our Miller Brothers Nursery Montmorency sour cherry trees were also heavy bearers, but they have gotten frosted the last 2 years.  Possibly just as well, since LFLF would be inundated with cherries!   When we had excess cherries, a friend used to make a "liquid" cherry slump.  Ingredients included sour cherries, sugar, ????, & time ....... :)

This is our "corn on the cob" pot over half full of cherries!   Now they've been rinsed and tumbled in lemon juice to help keep them from quickly turning brown.