These days, everyone automatically correlates Northern Michigan to cherries. Not only is the area the number one cherry-producing capital of the world, but the nationally famous Cherry Festival is celebrated throughout the region every year. North Star Organics is proud to be part of this famous legacy, bringing delicious and fresh produce to people all over the state and country.
The Kobernik family brings their farming history and passion for cherries into everything they do. North Star Organics allows you to take a piece of that pride home with you.
First, we sincerely hope all of you are safe and well.
North Star’s great news: We will have U-Pick this year!
Details will follow in the next several days. Tentatively we are looking at opening for Sweet/tart cherries to be ready Wednesday, July 22nd.
North Star’s not so great news: we do not have enough tart cherries on our trees to warrant large scale harvest, that will mean there will be no IQF tart cherries and no dried cherries for another long year.
Again, more details to come!
The Kobernik’s
“The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer.”
We’re sad to announce that North Star Organics did not harvest the entire crop this year. Cherry farmers are faced with many tough decisions, and this season was particularly challenging for us. We take pride in providing high quality products, and the fruit this year was not able to meet our standards.
We will have frozen organic tart cherries in August 2020 and dried organic cherries in September 2020.
AND we will now enter our 21st year organic and 35th year growing those cherries with renewed fortitude. Our thanks to all those who have offered such support and encouragement.
Organically yours,
Alan & Cheryl Kobernik
CHRISTOPHER BAKER ON NORTHSTAR ORGANICS
Famous film and video producer, Christopher Baker, was inspired by the Kobernik’s cherry farm when he visited. He created this montage of footage to celebrate the region’s favorite fruit and the pride and joy the Kobernik’s take in running their orchard.
Sadly, we do not have any products available to purchase at this time.
Check back with us in August 2021 for frozen organic tart cherries and September 2021 for dried organic cherries!
We are organically grown on a small family farm on a peaceful hillside in picturesque Northern Michigan. We are proudly raised for you by Alan, Cheryl, Emily and Eric and committed family and friends. They meticulously tend our soil, carefully prune our limbs, vigilantly defend us from harm and ultimately harvest us. Our stewards carefully oversee us being washed, sorted, pitted, packed and dried. We are very proud of our farm family that is committed to responsible and just decisions in all aspects of their lives. We find their commitment is the only way for all to thrive. Please enjoy us and thanks for supporting organic farms.
Family owned and operated 40 acre cherry orchard in Northern Michigan. 100% Certified organic for 20 years. Tart and sweet cherries: fresh, frozen, and dried available.
Committed to producing grade A quality fresh, frozen and dried cherries. Sweet and Montmorency Tart Cherry U-Pick in the month of July - call or visit our U-Pick Page for dates and availability.
We are verified by The Michigan Agriculture Environmental Assurance Program, an innovative, proactive program that helps farms of all sizes and all commodities voluntarily prevent or minimize agricultural pollution risks.
A great article by @nytimes highlighting the emotional and physical labor, and risk associated with farming, especially for the often unseen, but essential labor done by highly-skilled, low-wage workers.
"In March, when the United States began to lock down to slow the spread of the new virus, some workers noticed a change in how the government talked about them. As leaders planned for closures, it became clear that many of the lowest-paid and least-respected jobs in America were, in fact, the most important: the ones that could not be paused or interrupted or bypassed if society was to keep functioning. You could not, as Knutson put it, simply close the door to a farm for a month and then reopen it. People who had regularly been called illegal suddenly found themselves rebranded as essential."
www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/magazine/cherry-harvest-workers.html
Look at how creative @taproot_cider_house was with our Gold sweet cherries! Can't wait to try it! 💛
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This beauty was inspired by this years @northstarorganics cherry picking. Gold cherries are used for making maraschino cherries but why take such a tasty sweet cherry and turn it into something other than this TC Gold cocktail - organic gold cherry and Madagascar vanilla bean syrup, amber rum @newhollandspirits , lime, cider slushy, garnished with crystallized ginger and lime zest. Also available as a mocktail @taproot_cider_house ouse able ails ness arms
That sounds amazing!
Oh yum!!
I’m in!
Thanks to Robert Myers at the Benzie County Record Patriot for the article on this season's U-Pick!
Also reprinted by the @laredomorningtimes!
thank you for another amazing year of cherries! Canned, froze, ate and made jam. I so appreciate what your family offers to the community.
We end U pick 2020 today with touching stories and a host of photos. We wish everyone a healthy and joyous year. We are optimistic for a great harvest in 2021. 🍒
Look at all those yellow cherries! 💛It's always fun to see when pickers end up loving the Gold sweet cherries, even though they aren't "like the ones at the store!"
Last day for organic cherries is tomorrow! (Monday, July 27th). There are a lot of gold sweets, but we're effectively out of dark sweets and tarts, sorry!
They are delicious!! 😊
Love the Golds!!
Gold sweets are so yummy!!
The best
Love them!! 😍💛💛
