The Prairie Adventure Farm Orchard

  What are sour or tart cherries?  Call them pie cherries or baking cherries, call them good. These cherries are red right through with small pits to deal with. They have more sugar content than sweet cherries, but have a tart zing to them because they also have a higher Vitamin C content. We grow the 5 varieties developed by the U. of S. in Saskatoon in the Romance series: Crimson Passion, Valentine, Cupid, Romeo, and Juliet.  They are 8-10' bushes, bloom in May and ripen in July.  The cherries are juicy off the branches and have a very different flavour than the eating cherries, but process or freeze them, and the cherry essence just pops!    

We started our orchard with raspberries and asparagus in 1997.  Adding cherries in 2005 and saskatoons in 2008, we continued expanding some things and winding down others.  We look forward to seeing and visiting with so many of our regulars every year.