Rainier cherry trees are typically picked multiple times each season in Frank Lyall’s orchards in the Lower Yakima Valley. But extreme heat conditions at the end of June damaged many of those ...

As the calendar turns to spring with its lengthening days of warm sunshine, flowers begin to appear on fruit trees across Yakima Valley orchards. Early apricot blossoms are emerging in the Lower ...

Saturday's harvest total: 813 pounds of fruit. Even so, it hardly looks like the two dozen volunteers in matching red T-shirts made that much progress harvesting the 50-tree orchard. Many branches are ...

As you stroll the aisles of your local nursery this time of year, you might find yourself getting hungry as you pass a portable orchard of apple, pear, plum, cherry and fig trees. As winter morphs ...

Fresh cherry season is fleeting -- typically late-May through July, early August if we're lucky. And enjoying the sweet little fruits is laborsome, but for cherry lovers, the hard work of stemming and ...

Nothing says summertime quite like the taste of cherries, and the Evergreen State’s role in the development of one famous variety is a story ripe for the picking. Cherries mean summertime, and have in ...

Northwest Cherries has announced a new date for National Rainier Cherry Day, shifting the annual celebration of the beloved Northwest variety to June 28, according to a news release.

Rainier cherry trees are typically picked multiple times each season in Frank Lyall’s orchards in the Lower Yakima Valley. But extreme heat conditions at the end of June damaged many of those ...