It’s cherry season in Northern Michigan; growers are in the midst of cherry season in the Traverse Bay Farms region of Michigan. This means fresh cherries may still be available for shipping nationwide.
The Northwestern lower peninsula of Michigan grow over 65% of all of the Montmorency tart cherries in the US. These US-grown cherries are made into cherry juice concentrate, concentrated cherry juice, tart cherry powder, cherry capsules and more.
According to Andy LaPointe, Director of Marketing with Traverse Bay Farms, “Our region of Michigan grows some of the best fruit in the world including apples, berries and cherries. Year-round we ship our cherry juice concentrate, dried cherries, nationally award-winning cherry salsa and cherry capsules.”
Mr. LaPointe continued, “During the short summer harvest, we also ship, when we have a large enough crop the fresh tart cherry. This means, customers all over the United States can enjoy not our cherry juice concentrate, but fresh cherries. However, this year is a challenge due the shortage in the cherry yield for this year. So customers may or may not be able to enjoy fresh cherries shipped to them. But we are still figuring this out.”
Shipping fresh sweet cherries
Shipping fresh sweet cherries is a very short window. Since these little purplish orbs have a very short shelf life, timing in critical. Thus, to ensure the cherries are received in the best possible manner, the shipping of fresh cherries is done at the beginning of the week, on Monday only, to ensure the fresh cherry shipment arrives before the weekend.
The fresh tart cherry shipping is also available. However, the shelf-live is shorter than the sweet cherries. It is best simply place them into your freezer once received.
Traverse Bay Farms / Fruit Advantage has products distributed in over five countries across the globe and 42 states domestically in the United States.
For more information:
www.traversebayfarms.com
www.fruitadvantage.com