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, […]
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Last fall, The boys and I decided to switch the year’s walk to school up with a different form of travel – paddling to school. It was my idea for this fourth annual event, and the boys were against it at first. Colebrook wanted to run the seven miles to his classroom. “And let’s do […]
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Thanks to some very generous help from Leelanau Vacation Rentals, Cherry Republic is offering a four bedroom South Beach Condo at the Homestead Resort on Lake Michigan. The week will be prime time summer– July 10th-17th. This is a $3,700 value. We’d love to give this to the perfect family. Which could be you! To enter: Please write […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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We hope you can help us WELCOME! our two new barbecue sauces, Manitou Gold and Smokey Cherry Barbecue Dressing . Eric from Grand Rapids, Molly from St. Louis and Tyler from Boston stopped by the store on their way to the airport and were excited to try out the new barbecue sauces. I spent time with Chris and […]
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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 […]
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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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Welcome to our new Cherry Republic store in Frankenmuth! We are opening our doors Friday, May 20th! The addition of this retail store brings the total Michigan storefronts to five; Glen Arbor, Traverse City, Ann Arbor, Charlevoix, and Frankenmuth (NEW). This is was one of the first mock ups of the front of Cherry Republic […]
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Cherry Republic is happy to introduce “The Red Ladder,” their new line of unique products designed to surprise and delight everyone who is already a fan of their “Life, Liberty, Beaches, and Pie” way of living. These products celebrate the natural creativity of Northern Michigan and represent a new way to take home a little […]
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Monday is Federal Income Tax Day. To help you come to terms with all that you pay to Uncle Sam, we thought it would be good to remind you of the five things that our federal government does that we all love! Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive is only one of the many spots to visit in […]
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