Cherry Harvest

• South Okanagan cherry harvest well underway

  It wasn’t an easy growing season for cherries, with a cold April followed by record-hot temperatures in May and some rain in June.

  Environment

  Jul 7, 2023
  
• Summerland, B.C., orchardist bolsters on-site picker facilities to combat COVID-19

  Up to 1,500 migrant workers travel to the South Okanagan from Quebec every harvest season-- a province hit hard by the coronavirus with more than 55,000 confirmed cases.

  Jul 7, 2020
  
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• Cherry harvest is three weeks early in Okanagan

  "In normal years, we pick cherries about 10th of June. But this time, we picked on the 20th of May," said Paramjit Rai.

  May 26, 2016