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Cherry Root Beer & Cherry BBQ sauce sliders

Cherry Republic’s Cherry Root Beer & Cherry BBQ sauce pulled pork sliders Ingredients 4 lbs. pre-cooked pulled pork 16 oz. Cherry Republic’s Root Beer 4 Cup Cherry BBQ sauce 5 – dozen mini pretzel buns or your favorite bun! Directions: Preheat oven to 400 degrees In a large bowl, mix together root beer and BBQ sauce In a large baking pan with sides, heat […]

Sutherland's Leaf Day Adventure

Due to the thunderstorm, we started out on our third annual Leaf Day hike a little later than usual. The boys wanted to hike the dunes, so my goal was to hit the most remote and difficult-to-get-to spots on this special day off from work and school. Steph dropped me off with the boys at the […]

The Nouveau Est Arrive!

As A long-standing tradition throughout France, Beaujolais Nouveau Day is marked by fireworks and festivities to celebrate the season’s first wine. This hilly, French region in southeastern France is touted for its fruity, red Burgundy wine that is unusual in that it not aged like other wines. In fact, Beaujolais must be must drunk within […]

2016 Photo Contest

2016 Photo Contest How to enter: You can enter your photos by posting them to our Facebook Page, or posting them on Instagram or email social@cherryrepublic.com. Include the hashtag #BeachesAndPie and the category hashtag, #essenceofnorthernmi, #upnorthkids, or #summerintherepublic to be sure we know you’re entering. More details below. Click to view some of our 2016 entrees. [gallery ids=""5210,5209,5208,5207,5206,5205,5199,5201,5202,5203,5204,5198,5197,5196,5195,5193,5194,5188,5191,5189,5192,5214,5215,5216,5217,5218,5219,5220,5221,5222,5223""] The Winners […]

White Linen BBQ

Thank you all for a great evening! Here are some of our favorite photos from the evening. We look forward to hosting more dinners and a big thank you goes out to Jessie Zevalkink for all of the lovely photos. [gallery ids=""5094,5095,5096,5097,5098,5099,5100,5101,5102,5103,5104,5105,5106,5107,5108,5109,5110,5111,5112,5113,5114,5115,5116,5117,5118,5119,5120,5121,5122,5123,5124,5125,5126,5127,5128,5129,5130,5131,5132,5133,5134,5135,5136,5137,5138,5139,5140,5141,5142,5143,5144,5145,5146,5147,5148,5149,5150,5151,5152,5153,5154,5155,5156,5157,5158""] We saved a spot just for you! Help us celebrate summer with a White Linen Barbeque. Invite […]

Beach Towels

Enjoy a day at the beach wrapped in a Cherry Republic beach towel! Our giant, super thick beach towels are great for drying off after a dip in the lake and there super size makes the ideal place to soak up some sun on the beach. The towels are custom made in the USA specifically for us. Two […]

Ice Cream

The trick to good homemade ice cream is lots of time consuming layering of fun ingredients! This photo catches Matt our ice cream maker adding caramel sauce. If you look closely, there are chocolate covered waffle chips in the bucket in the foreground that go in next and almonds in the bowl above him. Hey, […]

Cherry Ambassadors

Meet a few of our cherry Ambassadors from our Glen Arbor campus. Starting from left to right, this is Larry’s first year on the cherry ambassador team, his favorite summer time food is BBQ ribs (with Cherry BBQ sauce of course!). Mallory and Molly are seasoned summer ambassadors and both love a good grilled burger. Evan is […]

From Trees to Bowls

Northwestern Michigan Woodturners Club joined residents on the patio at Cherry Republic Tuesday night. David Watt, pictured on the right is one of the woodturners and helped organize the event. The bowls pictured above were donated by woodturners for people to purchase by simply writing a thank you note and making a donation to the “Re-Arbor Glen […]

Weekend Vacation Gift

Sheri Chestnutwood and her family will be enjoying a beautiful weekend in northern Michigan this September. Here are some photos of her family This contest is closed. Thank you everyone for entering we got an overwhelming response, look for the winners in the next Orchard Report. Going to miss summer in Glen Arbor? Ugh. Well, here’s […]

Changes in the Republic

We are excited to share with you all we have been working on this spring. We hope you enjoy the photos below. Above is a birds eye view from inside our NEW Frankenmuth store. Our staff worked hard to get this store up and running just a few weeks ago, just in time for the famous […]

Red Ladder Sneak Peek

The original t-shirt! I start this blog with the original Cherry Republic t-shirt, which was this odd first product that had nothing to do with the 190 cherry food products we are known for. But we have now come full circle, and have a home and complimentary line of products for this iconic shirt. That […]

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Up North Blog

Up North Blog / Cherry Republic

Cherry Root Beer & Cherry BBQ sauce sliders

Sutherland's Leaf Day Adventure

The Nouveau Est Arrive!

2016 Photo Contest

White Linen BBQ

Beach Towels

Ice Cream

Cherry Ambassadors

From Trees to Bowls

Weekend Vacation Gift

Changes in the Republic

Red Ladder Sneak Peek