Articles with the Tag: Flathead cherries
POLSON – Gibberellic acid, stem-free cherries and cherry powdery mildew were just some of the topics discussed at the third annual Montana Cherry Symposium, held Sept. 14 at KwaTaqNuk Resort. Sponsored by the Montana Department of Agriculture, the one-day event featured speakers from Oregon, W...
POLSON — The Montana Department of Agriculture (MDA) and the Montana Cherry Advisory Committee will be hosting the Montana Cherry Symposium at the KwaTaqNuk Resort in Polson on Thursday, Sept. 14. The symposium will bring together cherry industry experts, and producers for a day packed with education o...
RONAN – Kids are selling cherries by the pound to help raise money for summer field trips with the Boys and Girls Club of the Flathead Indian Reservation and Lake County. Donna Diaz, 8, held up a box of red cherries for a customer to sample. “They are really good,” she said. She ...
POLSON – This year’s cherry harvest is looking good. That’s the word from Bruce Johnson, president of the Flathead Lake Cherry Growers Cooperative. He said a lot of fruit is growing on the area’s cherry trees and growers have been watering a lot due to warm temperatures. J...
YELLOW BAY — The 14th annual Yellow Bay Cherry Blossom Festival will be held on Saturday, May 13, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Yellow Bay Community Clubhouse located on Montana Highway 35 at mile-marker 18. The festival is free and open to the public. This year’s event includes artis...
YELLOW BAY — Local cherry growers heard about cherry powdery mildew on Saturday. Claudia Probst, a research associate at Washington State University- Prosser, spoke about the fungus before the Flathead Lake Cherry Growers, Inc. Probst said the mildew is unique to the Pacific Northwest, and mildew...
RONAN – Red, juicy cherries fesh off the tree are being sold by the pound to help raise money for the Boys and Girls Club. Several teams with about two kids and at least one adult are taking turns selling cherries at the corner of Terrace Lake Road and U.S. Highway 93, just north of the light, from ...
Along with an abundance of local cherries, thousands of people lined the streets during the Polson Main Street Flathead Cherry Festival last weekend. The two-day event embraces downtown Polson and offers the sweet taste of six different Flathead Valley cherry orchards, the sound of bagpipers playing in the s...
YELLOW BAY — The Montana Dept. of Agriculture (MDA) is offering a free informative meeting on the Worker Protection Standard and the recent revisions to the standard, to be held Wednesday, July 27, at 3 p.m. at the Yellow Bay Community Clubhouse, Highway 35, mile-marker 18. In October 2015 the Envir...
POLSON — On Saturday, Aug. 6, cooks from throughout the area will gather at the Kwa- TaqNuk Resort on Flathead Lake to compete in the eighth annual Smokin’ On The Water. Starting early in the morning, cooking teams will be applying that special rub and mixing that special sauce to tempt ...
