| The Cherry Harvest is one of the busiest times of the year. |
| Here about the cherry harvest. Our Plant in operation for a little over a week. |
Here is one of our cherry shakers it goes up to the tree and on the front of it it has a clamp that will hang on to the tree and shake it. |
The cherries are being dumped into a tank. There is a belt that will take them out of the tank and move them though the destemmer and the eliminator than they are brought into cherry factory. |
Here the shaker has the has the wings out and is shaking the cherry off the tree it takes around one or two minutes to get the cherries off the the tree. |
Then the cherries go though the pitters and than they go thought the sorters. then they make it to the belt where they are sorted out than. |
This is the cooling pad where the cherries are brought after being loaded up on the truck from the orchard. Here this is where the tanks where the leaves are removed and where there cooled down and iced down and sit till there ready to be processed. |
Then the belt takes the cherries to to the filler for the containors 25 Lbs buckets. The Bucket are filled with 25 pounds of cherries and they are also filled with 5 lb of sugar. They are put on a skid and wrapped with plastic. Then they are trucked to a cold storage unit for storage, they are for sale to food processers. |
| We also
have pick your cherries. In July and August. it all depends on if
the cherry
season is early or later it best to give a call to see when the cherries will be ready. The pick your own is picked in our orchards behind the store. We also have Bing Cherries already picked for sale in the store when they are in season.
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