Cherries

Hoping to provide his family with a better life, Alex Sambado sold his San Francisco grocery store in the 1940s to move his family to rural Linden, CA. He purchased a cherry and walnut orchard and never would have guessed that his bold move would change the lives of the Sambado family for generations to come.  In the 1980s, Alex’s son, Lawrence, decided to make another daring move and reorganized the company his father founded to form Primavera Marketing, Inc. Lawrence partnered with Ross Westbrook, whose family had been in the wine and table grape business for three generations.

Washington State is world-renowned for crispy, crunchy apples and Barrett Orchards is a valued contributor to this apple-grower success story. A fourth-generation family farm in eastern Washington’s Yakima Valley, owners Mark and Cheryl Barrett thrill customers with tree-ripened apples that anyone can just show up to get—by picking their own choice fruit. Since the 1990s, Barrett Orchards have diversified to include cherries, apricots, peaches, nectarines and pears.

Washington State is world-renowned for crispy, crunchy apples and Barrett Orchards is a valued contributor to this apple-grower success story. A fourth-generation family farm in eastern Washington’s Yakima Valley, owners Mark and Cheryl Barrett thrill customers with tree-ripened apples that anyone can just show up to get—by picking their own choice fruit. Since the 1990s, Barrett Orchards have diversified to include cherries, apricots, peaches, nectarines and pears.

Washington State is world-renowned for crispy, crunchy apples and Barrett Orchards is a valued contributor to this apple-grower success story. A fourth-generation family farm in eastern Washington’s Yakima Valley, owners Mark and Cheryl Barrett thrill customers with tree-ripened apples that anyone can just show up to get—by picking their own choice fruit. Since the 1990s, Barrett Orchards have diversified to include cherries, apricots, peaches, nectarines and pears.

Washington State is world-renowned for crispy, crunchy apples and Barrett Orchards is a valued contributor to this apple-grower success story. A fourth-generation family farm in eastern Washington’s Yakima Valley, owners Mark and Cheryl Barrett thrill customers with tree-ripened apples that anyone can just show up to get—by picking their own choice fruit. Since the 1990s, Barrett Orchards have diversified to include cherries, apricots, peaches, nectarines and pears.

Washington State is world-renowned for crispy, crunchy apples and Barrett Orchards is a valued contributor to this apple-grower success story. A fourth-generation family farm in eastern Washington’s Yakima Valley, owners Mark and Cheryl Barrett thrill customers with tree-ripened apples that anyone can just show up to get—by picking their own choice fruit. Since the 1990s, Barrett Orchards have diversified to include cherries, apricots, peaches, nectarines and pears.

Washington State is world-renowned for crispy, crunchy apples and Barrett Orchards is a valued contributor to this apple-grower success story. A fourth-generation family farm in eastern Washington’s Yakima Valley, owners Mark and Cheryl Barrett thrill customers with tree-ripened apples that anyone can just show up to get—by picking their own choice fruit. Since the 1990s, Barrett Orchards have diversified to include cherries, apricots, peaches, nectarines and pears.

So if you buy cherries from Glacier Farms, how fresh is fresh? Within 48 hours of being hand-picked every cherry has made its way from the tree to its prospective market in Italy, France, Canada, United States, Germany, England or China. Currently they bring to your market 35 acres worth of Lapins, Sweetheart, and Rainier cherries.  Soon though, they will also carry later varieties which will be available in 2012. Since their primary focus is on the largest and sweetest cherries, every June Herring will have half of the crop hand-thinned to allow the remaining cherries more room to grow and less competition for nutrients and sunlight for optimal growth and sweetness. Is your mouth watering yet? Mine is!

So if you buy cherries from Glacier Farms, how fresh is fresh? Within 48 hours of being hand-picked every cherry has made its way from the tree to its prospective market in Italy, France, Canada, United States, Germany, England or China. Currently they bring to your market 35 acres worth of Lapins, Sweetheart, and Rainier cherries.  Soon though, they will also carry later varieties which will be available in 2012. Since their primary focus is on the largest and sweetest cherries, every June Herring will have half of the crop hand-thinned to allow the remaining cherries more room to grow and less competition for nutrients and sunlight for optimal growth and sweetness. Is your mouth watering yet? Mine is!

So if you buy cherries from Glacier Farms, how fresh is fresh? Within 48 hours of being hand-picked every cherry has made its way from the tree to its prospective market in Italy, France, Canada, United States, Germany, England or China. Currently they bring to your market 35 acres worth of Lapins, Sweetheart, and Rainier cherries.  Soon though, they will also carry later varieties which will be available in 2012. Since their primary focus is on the largest and sweetest cherries, every June Herring will have half of the crop hand-thinned to allow the remaining cherries more room to grow and less competition for nutrients and sunlight for optimal growth and sweetness. Is your mouth watering yet? Mine is!

So if you buy cherries from Glacier Farms, how fresh is fresh? Within 48 hours of being hand-picked every cherry has made its way from the tree to its prospective market in Italy, France, Canada, United States, Germany, England or China. Currently they bring to your market 35 acres worth of Lapins, Sweetheart, and Rainier cherries.  Soon though, they will also carry later varieties which will be available in 2012. Since their primary focus is on the largest and sweetest cherries, every June Herring will have half of the crop hand-thinned to allow the remaining cherries more room to grow and less competition for nutrients and sunlight for optimal growth and sweetness. Is your mouth watering yet? Mine is!

Washington State is world-renowned for crispy, crunchy apples and Barrett Orchards is a valued contributor to this apple-grower success story. A fourth-generation family farm in eastern Washington’s Yakima Valley, owners Mark and Cheryl Barrett thrill customers with tree-ripened apples that anyone can just show up to get—by picking their own choice fruit. Since the 1990s, Barrett Orchards have diversified to include cherries, apricots, peaches, nectarines and pears.