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Join our team for the cherry season – applications for work
Are you interested in joining our 2020 cherry harvest team? We have work available early December for cherry picking, packing and customer service. No experience needed - just a love of working outdoors, a great attitude and early starts. For more information and...
Cherry blossom bookings
Come enjoy the beauty of our cherry orchard in springtime when we open the farm October 4. We're hope it gives some joy in what's been a most unusual year. Take a stroll through the cherry orchard, enjoy the cherry blossoms and the excitement of new beginnings. You...
Pick Your Own Cherries 2020 Season
BOOKINGS OPENING NEXT MONTH … sign up to be the first to know. So excited that, under current restrictions, we will be able to open this season for pick your own. To be COVID safe we’ll ask you to pre-book your visit this season. Bookings will open next month once...
Winter in the orchard
There's no fruit to pick right now. Our trees stand graceful with a sculptural beauty in their leafless winter dormancy. Pruned and fed they are saving resources and soaking in the winter chill as they get ready to burst into blossom in spring for fruit in summer. ...
Autumn gold
My little cover crop is coming up beautifully. We cultivated and planted every second row through the orchard, trying to remove and outcompete the weedy, clumpy paspalum grass and bring some life and organic matter back into the soils. The barley has sprinted away...
Online orders now available
Looking for some treats in isolation? Good news - our cherry products are now available for delivery. You can now order for delivery our Pickled Cherries (think cheese platters, paired with meats or in salads), Cherries in Cinnamon & Orange (on rice pudding) or...
KIRSEBÆR SOVS Danish cherry sauce
A few people have asked me for this recipe. Any Dane knows it well as the traditional Danish Christmas dessert is this cherry sauce served over a rice and almond and cream pudding (risalamande). There's one whole almond in the pudding and whoever is lucky enough to...
2019 Cherry season closed
And that's it - our most unpredictable cherry season is closed ... we've no cherries left to pick. Thank-you to all who visited our orchard or met our cherry express. The cherries really were the boss this season... driven by some extreme swings in weather...
Last chance for 2019 cherries
Our 2019 cherry season is nearly done - we're almost out of cherries. Drought and the extreme temperature swings that go with it gave us a very small crop this year, we saved them all for our farm gate sales, pick your own and deliveries but even so not enough. ...