{"id":1271,"date":"2021-07-09T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T10:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.local-heroes.ch\/2021\/07\/09\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-2021-cherry-season-in-switzerland\/"},"modified":"2021-07-13T11:25:48","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T09:25:48","slug":"everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-2021-cherry-season-in-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.local-heroes.ch\/en\/2021\/07\/09\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-2021-cherry-season-in-switzerland\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything you need to know about the 2021 cherry season in Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/1″][vc_custom_heading]Everything you need to know about the 2021 cherry season in Switzerland<\/strong>[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/1″][vc_column_text]Cherry season is now! Unlike <\/span>strawberry season<\/span><\/a>, it only lasts one month and that month is July. Unfortunately though, we bring bad news for this year: cherries will be in short supply in 2021, depending on the region and the time of ripening, both as distilled and canned cherries and table cherries. <\/span>According to the first harvest estimate from end of May, the Swiss Fruit Association expects a quantity of <\/span>1,682 tons of table cherries<\/span><\/a>, around 20 percent below the five-year average.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/1″][vc_custom_heading]The Spring frost<\/b>[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text]Switzerland experienced an <\/span>extremely warm February<\/span><\/a> this year, with a nationwide average of 1.6 degrees, the <\/span>second warmest February since 1864! <\/span><\/a>\u00a0But since then there have been <\/span>two to three waves<\/span><\/a> with frost in Switzerland (depending on the region), this has had serious consequences for Swiss farmers. Already predicting in April that other stone fruit crops, especially cherries, would have suffered badly. Flower growth started early this year. “As a result, the frost damage to stone fruits will be higher than in previous years,\u201d states Jonathan Fisch, business administration spokesman at the confederation.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/1″][vc_custom_heading]Two weeks behind schedule<\/b>[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text]Ernst L\u00fcthi, President of the Baselland Fruit Association says: \u201cThere will be a harvest, but unfortunately the cherry harvest will probably be around <\/span>50 percent<\/span><\/a> of the normal amount harvested. That means, and I trust myself to make an estimate here, that it will be somewhere around 1500 tons of cherries throughout the whole of Switzerland. So it\u2019s not that we will have no supplies “<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]We’ll have to wait a little longer until the cherries get their color and are sweet, because nature is \u201ctwo weeks behind last year. Last year around this time, I had the first cherries on the farm\u201d, says fruit farmer Kleiber from Biel-Benken.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/1″][vc_custom_heading]Hearing from the farmers themselves<\/b>[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text]The harvest forecasts for the cherry farmers are very different. The Chriesisturm in the city of Zug was canceled earlier due to the corona, as was the Zuger Chriesim\u00e4rt. <\/span>Philipp Hotz from Hotzenhof in Deinikon already started with the harvest on the 28th of June. He expects a <\/span>yield of up to 90 percent<\/span><\/a> (entry 21\/06\/2021). For eight nights in spring, they have fought the cold with frost candles, apparently with success.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Xaver Moos from Zug’s R\u00fcschenhof will only start harvesting this week (5th of July), noticing a gap in the early varieties and losses arising when handling the cherries. He had not taken any measures to protect the cherry blossoms against the cold in the spring months. Fortunately, they\u2019re less affected by the frost due to the location and the cherry varieties grown there are also less susceptible.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Cherry distiller and variety specialist Hermann R\u00f6llin in Notikon expects a massive crop failure of <\/span>70 to 80 percent<\/span><\/a> for cherries. According to R\u00f6llin, not much Zug cherry will be distilled this year either. For him, however, such fluctuations in cherry cultivation with standard trees are nothing unusual. After years with good to very good harvests, there is now a year with low yields.\u00a0<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/1″][vc_custom_heading]Local farmers need your help more than ever!<\/b>[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text]With fewer cherries available this season, let\u2019s not allow their efforts and fruits to go to waste. Below we have compiled a list of farmers that offer cherries this season and self-picking. If none are near your area, head over to our platform<\/a> and give your postal code, we\u2019re sure you\u2019ll find one nearby!<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/1″][vc_column_text]*Chriesisturm<\/a>: Already in the 18th century, the bell of the “Chriesiglogg\u00e4” – cherry bell – announced the ripening of the cherries on the “Allmend”, the meadows covered with cherry trees. When the bell rang at noon for the first time in June, the people of Zug knew that the cherries were ready to be picked. Equipped with large wooden ladders and “Chriesihutten” (baskets to be carried on their backs), they ran to the Allmend to pick the most beautiful and sweetest fruits.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/1″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]Les Jardins de la Petite Ligni\u00e8re<\/span><\/a> – <\/span>Route Suisse 55, 1196 Gland<\/span><\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image media=”1287″ media_width_percent=”100″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]Domaine de Sur-Chaux<\/span><\/a> – <\/span>Chemin de Chaux 15, 2852 Court\u00e9telle<\/span><\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image media=”1290″ media_width_percent=”100″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]O\u2019Fruitier<\/span><\/a> – <\/span>Roveray 194, 1170 Aubonne<\/span><\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image media=”1293″ media_width_percent=”100″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]Wydackerhof Walther Dimerswil<\/span><\/a> – <\/span>Wydacherweg 3053, 3053 Diemerswil<\/span><\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image media=”1296″ media_width_percent=”100″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]Buuregarte<\/span><\/a> – <\/span>Dr\u00e4likon 14 , 6331 H\u00fcnenberg<\/span><\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image media=”1299″ media_width_percent=”100″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/1″][vc_custom_heading]Everything you need to know about the 2021 cherry season in Switzerland[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/1″][vc_column_text]Cherry season is now! 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