Rent a cherry tree

If you love cherries as much as I do, why don't you rent a cherry tree? Michael Dallaway at Rent a Cherry Tree has a scheme where for £30 you can rent a cherry tree for a whole year, giving you the specific tree location in the orchard and when the cherries are ripe for the picking, you go along and pick them to devour as you wish!

With these juicy berries all becoming ripe in a fairly short window, you have to either really like cherries and have them for breakfast, lunch and dinner, or get creative. Being inspired in the kitchen is something that working with seasonal ingredients demands, and so I am planning to make cherry compotes, cherry pies, cherry chocolate brownies, preserve them as cherry jam, and freeze them for a cherry injection throughout the year. I honestly cannot wait for them to ripen!

I have to say that I love this this scheme on many levels, largely for the reasonably priced local seasonal fruit I will be overwhelmed with, but also for the guaranteed price this scheme provides for Michael and his orchard, hopefully preserving the orchard for future generations of cherry lovers.