So many of you have asked me about sour cherries! I am glad to hear that you love them as much as I do. After some hunting, I could not find a farm which offered cherry picking. Some very nice neighbors of the restaurant where I work offered their tree for picking, but I was in the middle of a hugely busy week and couldn't get there in time. But wasn't that the most super cool thing? People in this city rock.
At any rate. every summer, my dear mother and I order sour cherries from our super-secret sources that we never share, and hoard them all for ourselves. We dry them and make jam and syrup and all sorts of goodies you'll never be able to try.
Oh, kitties. I am, of course, joking completely. We do order sour cherries every year in huge amounts. The cherries come from Michigan, and the best thing is they don't arrive until July! So there is still time.
Each year, we order from either:
Jacquemin Farms 7437 Hyland-Croy Road 614.873.5725 (just past Dublin)
Yutzy's Farm Market 6010 Converse Huff Rd (just South of Plain City) 614.873.3815
Yutzy's Farm Market 6010 Converse Huff Rd (just South of Plain City) 614.873.3815
I've never tried to order anything other than cherries from Jacquemin Farms, but Yutzy's does a huge business in selling bulk fruits for preserving. You can order sour and sweet cherries, blueberries, peaches, and blackberries as they come into season. I usually order 10 pound buckets of pitted cherries. If I am going to dehydrate them, I strain off the juice and make syrup with it, and put the cherries in a dehydrator.
