“Cherries!?” Almost everyone who passed the Murray Family Farms stand at the Santa Monica farmers market on Wednesday blurted out this word in varied tones of delight, surprise, and skepticism.

A large crop of succulent, ruby-red cherries are ripe for the picking in the Brentwood area, just in time for the Memorial Day weekend rush. Deemed an essential business, the farms were “lucky to be ...

Red cherries hang like summer jewels in an orchard at Haymarsh, a peaceful valley settlement about 60 miles west of Bismarck where Ken and Mary Ann Duppong grow fruit amid their amber waves of grain.

Growing cherries requires a lot of patience, constant vigilance and hard work to bring a successful and abundant crop to market. The work of pruning, watering and fertilizing goes on through the ...

A large crop of succulent, ruby-red cherries are ripe for the picking in the Brentwood area, just in time for the Memorial Day weekend rush. Thousands of people from all over the Bay Area are expected ...