 My parents moved down here in 1990 from the Northwest Territories and my dad planted his first orchard just a couple years later and decided after selling his first box of cherries through a peddler that maybe it would be better to build his own packing line. We've been growing fruit in my family since 1980 and back into India, Punjab, that's where it all started for farming for our family. We sell our fruit worldwide because of the facilities that we have and we're able to store and keep fruit fresh for months. Summerland is the unofficial cherry capital of the world. We have all the different varieties growing here in Summerland and we've been able to expand our season so cherries are harvested at the end of June and we're picking until the end of August. Here in Summerland and here through the Okanagan, we do grow the best cherries in the world and it's not just because we say that, it's actually true. Buying DC product, it just tastes better. Such fresh taste and also the flavors with all the sunlight and such an open valley. We get the best flavors in our fruit and no other country can grow cherries like us or apples like us. There's a lot of passion in the people that know how to grow cherries. You watch all year long and your tree goes from being dormant to being in full bloom and it's really exciting to watch how many blossoms you have and then you watch the crops set and you watch the cherries start to grow and you start to count them and you start to watch them size. I think there's something really special about that. If you're in the Okanagan you can go to a fruit stand and you can get fresh cherries. You can find them all summer long but in retail stores at the Lower Mainland or in the North I think it's and I think asking when you don't see them is worth it. Come check out the orchards, pick up some fruit from the local fruit stands and experience it yourself. The fruit is amazing and the experience is going to be even better. Supporting local farmers is critical in making sure that family farms can persist and can last. B.C. producers are really excited to share their product with Canadians.