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A very nice crop of cherries this year. We picked one day, pitted the next (at the pool!) and then preserved. Sour cherry recipes here: Sour Cherry Pie Sour Cherry Preserves. Maraschino Cherries The take: Pitting poolside. Later, at home, stir […]
It’s time, folks! Sour cherries are ripe. Gorgeous! And look who is my little helper. Also, hydrangeas!
We harvest the cherries from the dwarf tree, the North Star. A nice haul.
So pleased to see the oak leaf hydrangea will bloom this year! Geraniums and phlox: Cherry! Looking good!
With the very last of our sour cherries, we decided to go for a shrub, otherwise known as a drinking vinegar. These were quite popular long ago, but had fallen out of favor until the cocktail cognoscenti decided to explore […]
We worked all weekend to put up cherries. First, here’s our recipe. Afterwards, our step-by-step photos and this year’s haul (23 pounds in one picking!) [amd-zlrecipe-recipe:51] Our original recipe is here: Sour Cherry Preserves. A few numbers for you: 3 1/2 […]
It was a stellar year for cherries, let me tell you. All in all, we made a pie, a shrub and 4 cases of preserves! Yes, your Christmas presents are all ready! Our famous pie recipe can be found here: […]
Another cool shot of the tree. Those cherries are coming down!
A sour cherry preserves recipe by Kevin West, from his book, Saving the Season. We tried to follow it for our first sour cherry harvest, but alas, ended up winging it a bit. Find our post here: Sour Cherries in […]
The first harvest from our backyard trees yielded six pounds. Instead of our regular Sour Cherry Preserves recipe, we decided to try one from Kevin West’s book Saving the Season. What we like about the recipe is that because it […]
The cherries are going gangbusters. Such a nice change after our lame-ass harvest last year! Here’s a look!
A strange season this year, indeed. Cherries are ripening way early — two weeks, by some accounts — and yet, peonies, for some reason, stayed blooming later than ever. Here’s an update of what’s ripening and blooming in the fields. […]
With such a small sour cherry yield this year, we decided to savor the little we picked, so we made garnishes out of our precious harvest. We found this recipe for pickled sour cherries in Cooking in the Moment: A Year of […]
What a sad, sad year. After last year’s nearly 20 quarts of sour cherries, we were lucky to get one small quart of cherries this year. (See Greg describing last year’s harverst in this post here.) Here is the lame, […]
Sam is “helping.”
They’re so pretty when they open up, aren’t they? And the knowledge that they’ll soon be a fruit makes them even more beautiuf.
Spring has arrived at Sour Cherry Farm. We’ve already done our pruning, and the daffodils are out. I’m thinning out the ferns a bit: Black currants are forming on the bushes: Blue Forget Me Nots: One red tulip is all […]
With this video, Greg talks about the sour cherry harvest. About 20 quarts were harvested!
Our tree in the front yielded 20 quarts — 20 quarts! — of sour cherries. With only two days to put them up into sour cherry preserves, we had to work quickly. We picked and pitted on Saturday night and […]
Though we’ve been growing sour cherries for a bunch of years, we’ve never had a big enough yield to make an entire pie of all our own cherries. Well folks, this is the year. Not only do we have enough […]
The back tree, the little dwarf Northstar, produced quite a bit this year. And early, too. A few more pics, after the jump.
The cherries came early this year. We probably could have picked some of them the first of June, even! Here’s a look on the 6th: And here’s a little sour cherry, too!
Thanks to a warm spring, we’re about a week ahead on the crops this year. And the Pink Jasmine, which SCF fans may remember from such posts as “Welcome to the Farm, Lingonberries and Currants,” has never looked better. And […]
A look around the fields, folks. Yes, we seem to have come out of winter hibernation all right! Here’s a pretty one of my newly planted Nepeta.
Looking good this year!
A quick look at the gorgeous crop coming in. Can’t wait to pick ’em.
I don’t think we’ve ever had as much snow! You can’t even see the trunks of the sour cherry trees!
We harvested 94 cherries this year. We think next year is going to be the breakout year. If we can just hold on! A video of the harvest:
The second sour cherry pie of the season seemed to work out a little better. I gathered the dough a little tighter and didn’t put quite as much filling inside. This sour cherry pie filling, by the way, is great […]
I must admit. The first sour cherry pie of the season was a bit of a failure. Not an abject failure — I was able to salvage it. But not what I’d been hoping and dreaming of for a year. […]
My husband, Greg, and I are co-founders of SCF, which chronicles what we eat, drink and grow as we raise our daughter on a tiny plot of land in the Lower Hudson Valley.
