Boyers instituted Pick Your Own Cherries back in the 70's when Bill Lower decided to open the orchards for the public to pick. As luck would have it, a reporter from the Washington Post chanced to come up and enjoy our new venture. He subsequently went back to DC and wrote an expose on the farm and the rest is history! Currently, Boyers has over 300 families from Washington, DC, Arlington, VA metropolitan areas that have been coming back for generations to pick cherries.
Boyers has approximately 35 acres of cherries, both sweet and sour. General ripening time for sweets is mid-June, with sours arriving with the 4th of July. Each year is different depending upon the weather. This year the cherries are ripening 10 days earlier due to the unseasonable warm weather back in April. Cherries do not like rain, as their skins are not permeable and split or crack. This would account for their popularity as they are indeed a precious Adams County commodity!
Currently, Boyers has over twenty different varieties of cherries with colors ranging from red to dark black to pure yellow. There's the well known Bing, as well as Hedelfingen, Lapins, Ulster, Van, Kristin, Sam, Sue, Emperor Francis, Starks' Gold and more. Now is the time to visit us at Fridays Farm Fresh Market to satisfy your appetite for cherries.
