🍒 🍒 Cherry season is hitting full swing here in Mudgee and it's looking good again as we start picking in our final variety of cherries. A little earlier than most seasons. 🍒 🍒

Cherry Express on tour this week

🍒 Delivery runs to the North West (this Wednesday 11 Dec) and the Hunter (this Friday 15 Dec). At this stage we don't expect to have any later runs to those regions.

Orders are now open online - click here

Cherry Express North West and Hunter order here

If you had previously ordered by email (and we had replied!) then no need to order again.

North West Region Cherry run - this Wednesday 11 Dec

7 - 7:30am Coolah - Black Stump Butcher

8:10-8:30am Tambar Springs - outside store

9:45 - 11am - Gunnedah - Sunburnt Treasures 85 Connadilly St 

12:15 - 1pm Boggabri - Commercial Hotel

1:30 - 2:30pm Narrabri (also 7:30 - 8:30 am Thursday) - 25a Selina St

4:30 - 5:30 pm Moree - Town & Country Club 7 Frome St

Hunter region Cherry Run Friday 13 Dec

7 - 7:30a Scone - Bunnan Rd - opposite Vet

8 -8:30 am Muswellbrook - Victoria Park

9:15 - 9:30a Singleton

10:30 a - 1:30 p - Morpeth - Ginger Beer Factory and Morpeth Gallery carpark

3 - 5pm - Maitland - Maitland Park opposite pool

We'll load the little truck so there will be some available on the day, if not all committed to orders.

You can also buy our cherries at:

🍒 Black Stump Butchery Coolah

🍒 Craddocks' butchery Narrabri

🍒 Streater's butchery Gunnedah

🍒 S & S Meats Mudgee

🍒 Bleu Sky Cheese Mendooran

We hope to do a Blue Mountains / Sydney run early next week - we're just taking it a few days at a time as we navigate this weather. More to come.

At the orchard

Cherries are available at the orchard daily from 7:30 am until 5pm for boxed sales from the cherry shed.

Pick your own is open each morning 7:30 - 11am (beat the heat)

Morello Sour Cherries

These little bombs of sour and flavour are at various stages of ripeness.

Ready for picking at a red-ripe stage this week, wait a bit for black ripe.

With a warm week ahead that could be next weekend. Usually it's been after Christmas!

Pick Your own

So wonderful to see many families and visitors back in the orchard over the past week. We had a few lovely family groups today who have made it 10 years of cherry picking with us! It's so special to help create special traditions and memories for these families.

We can open again over this week and next weekend as the cherries are holding up much better than I had imagined when we saw last week's weather. One block is still taking time to ripen. I have now reopened bookings for pick your own.

The cherry season rollercoaster

Thank-you for following this journey with us this season. It’s been a wild rollercoaster of weather. Thankfully the gamble on extra inputs to dry and protect the cherries seems to have paid off. The Simone cherries have survived the rain.

In many blocks I had done some major renewal pruning, this stimulated a lot of leafy growth which seem to have helped to protect the cherries (sun on cherries before they dry can cause more splitting). There are some fabulous sizes in there and they are super juicy. We hope this week’s sunshine will help to move sugars into the cherries.

Interestingly, the Simones coloured up early in the heatwave, but then with all the water movement it has taken longer to get the sugars moving. So after scrambling to start picking early, then hitting pause for more ripening we are only a couple of days ahead of normal.

Thank-you for supporting our family farm.

Ingrid Roth

Cherry Grower