Sour cherries, also known as tart or pie cherries, are small, round stone fruits with vibrant red skin and juicy, tangy flesh. Unlike their sweeter counterparts, sour cherries have a bold, mouth-puckering flavor that makes them ideal for baking, preserving, and sauces. Their high acidity and concentrated cherry essence shine in pies, jams, and compotes. Harvested at peak ripeness, they’re delicate and highly perishable, often available only for a short window in midsummer.Related to other stone fruit like peaches and plums, these sweet treats have a long history. Archaeologists have discovered fossilized cherry pits in prehistoric caves throughout Europe and Asia and cherries are mentioned in ancient Greek writings. Bake a cherry clafoutis; simmer into a jam to accompany cheese; eat out of hand.
Boyertown, PA
Frecon Farms has been growing some of Pennsylvania's finest tree fruits and berries since 1944. Cherries, peaches, plums, blueberries, nectarines, raspberries, apples, and pears. For 3 generations, we've provided the Delaware Valley and communities throughout the United States with the best fruit, local produce, specialty food items, and ciders through our retail store, bakery, kitchen, farmers' markets, and wholesale distribution services.
Frecon Farms practices Integrated Pest Management “IPM” an environmentally sensitive growing practice that uses a variety of management controls that are natural, synthetic, and in some cases organic. Our practice is neither conventional nor organic. The IPM program is science based, prohibits broad spectrum controls used in a conventional programs and incorporates environmentally safe synthetic controls for which there are no alternatives in an organic program and are a necessity for fruit growing program on the East Coast. All fruit and vegetable growers regardless of organic, IPM, or conventional spray to apply controls for pests (weeds, insects, mammals, birds, viruses, and funguses) and to apply valuable nutrients in environmentally friendly and economically efficient ways.