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Saturday we headed north to Traverse City with another family for the day to get out of town for the 4th July Independence Day weekend. It is a 2 hour drive north-west of Midland along the highway that takes us through small towns and farmland. There are even buffalo farms along the way where you can see herds grazing.

Michigan produces 75% of the tart cherry crop each year (or 250 million pounds/114 million kg) and given a mature tree can produce 100 pounds a season, there are at least 2.5 million trees in Michigan alone. Sweet cherries come from Washington, Oregon and California and in total 650 million pounds of sweet and tart are grown every year.


Traverse City cherry picking Tart Cherries-Red and Pink Cheeks

We ended up picking 7 pounds (3kg) of cherries, so will have a good supply for the coming week :).