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Article: SAVE OUR CHERRIES
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- Herald Express (Torquay UK)
- Article date:
- July 17, 2009
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YOU can rent a tree, plant your own, or grab a basket and find a
handy orchard. But however you choose to get hold of your cherries
this year, don''t leave it too long.
Over the past 50 years, Britain has lost around 90 per cent of
its cherry orchards and now imports account for nearly 95 per cent
of all the fruit you see in the shops.
So, with the industry under threat, the cherry season -- June to
July -- is an important time for British farmers.
Henrietta Green, founder of FoodLovers Britain.com, could talk
cherries for hours.
Having written about small speciality food producers since the
1980s -- a decade when it was more fashionable to eat Poptarts than
cherry tarts -- she says these ...