One of Janessa's many job descriptions for the orchard is photographer. She takes all manner of pictures of the fruit on the tree, harvesting, fruit in the trailer getting ready to ship and some pictures of our life and certain projects that are going on. She has an amazing eye for a good picture. I have gathered a few from cherry harvest for your pleasure. Please enjoy!
The cherries have to get cool as soon as possible, so we lay them across the floor of the semi 6 or 7 in a row, by the next morning they are down to 32 degrees. Let me tell you a freezing cold cherry on a hot day is one of the best treats you can have!
The fun, challenging part of the harvest is keeping count of each one of these totes, it took me a week or so before my count was right every single day :D
After the cherries are cool, we stack them into these bins. Each bin can hold 30 totes of cherries.
My all time favorite cherries are the Rainier, I ate way too many. There was about 3 times more Rainier cherries than any other variety.
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| This plant is one of our worst enemies in the orchard, Poison Ivy/oak (depending on who you talk to). |
During cherry harvest, there are literally millions of wild daisies blooming all over the orchard!
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| Dad getting ready to prime the pump. |
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| Garrett and his big puppy, they sure do love each other! |
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| Here are some of the earliest apples. |
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| A mixed load of cherries. |
Garrett, Gabe, and I spent the morning cleaning up the mess we made on the day before, then moved on to making another one.
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| Garrett is doing his "weight lifting", he has 40lbs in each hand, it's surprising how fast this trick becomes the easiest method of carrying the totes. |
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| Our fork lift died the first week of cherry harvest, so we had to do a little bit of double stacking by hand. |
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