Just got some at Migros. 14chf/kg was a bit pricey, but they were yummy!!

A bit! Our Aldi had them for .89 centimes a 100g so under 9 francs a kilo. You need to go and find yourself a cherry farm somewhere mate.

Where from?

Kallnach, not far from Aarburg in Canton Bern.

https://www.google.ch/maps/@47.0162705,7.2286344,14z

He's on the main road heading towards Fräschels not too far from the school. He has a small self service stand for fruit and veg and a sign out saying kirschen.

It's that time of year again. OH picked up our first sampling of cherries this year from a stall in Aarberg today. Will be trying them later, but they look lovely. 8 francs for a kilo.

Shows how late the season is this year. My first cherry post last year was on the 6th June and here we are 25th!

Um, not too bad. Not quite as much flavour, but still more bright red than dark red so maybe a little more ripening will do the trick.

I got my gift of cherries from my orchard-owning neighbour today, delicious! Only 2 days later than last year according to my insta ) I have eaten almost one third of the box already!

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For those towards the lower end of the Zürichsee left coast, the Seebenhof farm in Samstagern (on the road between Samstagern and Schindellegi) has it's glorious Kordia cherries on sale now:

http://seebenhof.ch/n_home.html

044 784 78 75
eMail: info@seebenhof.ch
H.+ H. Treichler-Schärer
Seeben 2
8833 Samstagern

Oh my, these are heavenly.


(By the way, very nice eggs, too. And a good selection of other farm produce and products.)

We got some at the Migros in Brügg Port, Bienne today - 5.90 for a kilo! Haven't been that low in price for a long time.

Well, don't know about anyone else, but our consumption was down a lot this year. We usually have 7-8 kilos; this year I think it was only 4.5. And none from one of our usual farms. Don't know if it was just because when we passed it it was lunchtime, but we never saw the table outside ready to have punnets put out which is usually there even if they're not selling at that particular point in time.

A couple weeks ago our local paper reported that the Ausserschwyz area cherry harvest was way down this year. If fact, some farms had no cherries at all.

I only discovered Seebenhof (post above) because I had to go looking further afield when my usual cherry farms had nothing to sell.

I was only able to make 4 jars of cherry jam this year. To be doled out like gold dust.

Let's hope for a better harvest in 2017.

Indeed Meloncollie. What worries me is that having had a mild winter, a soggy spring and mostly soggy summer, winter will hit us early and hard.

Bought our first couple of kilos of Swiss cherries today. Haven't had any yet, but they look lovely. I was surprised to see any on sale as most of the cherry trees around here are still all green berries so nowhere near ripe.

Well, I stole one last week in Migros and it was so sour that I did not buy them.
So after you did all the admiring their shape and color maybe you should try them and post again

Juat did, and they're very nice. Certainly not sour.

Maybe because the supermarket ones were picked too early to get them into the shops. We bought direct from the supplier again.

Is it that time of year again when I've got to pop a Swiss cherry? I don't do it for myself (I'm not getting any younger), but for the greater good...

Oh good! I was really concerned that the hard frost we had killed off most of the cherries this year.

Looks like I will need to so some roadside market exploring

Well doesn't look too bad around here DantesDame - Seeland and environs. We picked ours up just outside Aarberg, there were a couple of places selling them around there, but that was all we saw today. As said, most of the trees around here still have green berries. I only saw one tree with red ones - again not too far from Aarberg - but other trees nearby were still green berries. Guess it also depends on the type of cherry being grown.

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At Piscopo´s shop I saw a 250g box of cherries or €10, right next to a bundle of asparagus for 1€ a stick.
Enjoy your fresh cherries by the handful.