This Sunday was cherry harvesting day, a perfect day for clearing off all the cherries from our cherry tree! The whole family participated, even my parents came from next door and helped pick cherries.

This is our first year with a full harvest, as other years we lost them to a dusty mold. We did see some mold on the upper branches, but most of the cherries were perfectly fine.

It was a great harvest, there were so many cherries that it took most of the day to pick them all. Some of the higher cherries took tall ladders for us to reach them.

We started with one five-gallon bucket, but once that was full, we found other containers and filled them. We found another five-gallon and fill that to the brim also!

Even as we picked all the lower branches, there were always more hanging above us. I even went onto the roof of the house to get some of the fruit near the house.

Once we picked all the cherries we could reach (about 90% of the tree), we estimated about three and a half buckets of cherries. We did some math and calculated these to be valued at several hundreds of dollars - but we're not selling, we're giving away and utilizing the cherries.

Now the priority is getting the pits out and freezing them before they go bad. We are so excited about this massive harvest.

Next up... apples come fall-time!

Benjamin Turner: God fearer. Rooted in Messiah. Husband of @lturner. Father of SEVEN wonderful children. The guy behind the camera. Blockchain enthusiast.

Bless the Most High!