Contributed by Angela Cleveland

It’s cherry time! This week, we are lucky to have Sonnet cherries from Calissi’s Farm located right here in the Okanagan. These beautiful heart-shaped cherries are bright red in colour and have a high sugar content which makes them a delicious and refreshing snack or great for your favourite cherry recipe. Here are some fun cherry facts (from www.agday.org) and great recipes to enjoy:

- The same chemicals that give tart cherries their color may relieve pain in humans better than aspirin and ibuprofen.
- Eating about 20 tart cherries a day could reduce inflammatory pain and headache pain.
- There are about 7,000 cherries on an average tart cherry tree (the number varies depending on the age of the tree, weather and growing conditions).
- It takes about 250 cherries to make a cherry pie, so each tree could produce enough cherries for 28 pies!

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