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Toasted Goat Cheese and Cherry Fig Jam Crostini

Crostini can regularly be found on most restaurant menus (including ours!) and at any friend/family gathering. Its versatility and ease of preparation lends itself to an infinite amount of tasty toppings and variations. Tony Finnestad, our Corporate Chef, paired our new Savory Cherry Fig Jam with tart Goat Cheese and a bag of our Cherry Ambassador Mix to […]

The Cherry Republic Experience

Camps for the kids and tours and events for the grown-ups will hopefully be a fun way to get more people to experience life in the Republic! Cherry Republic has a new addition coming in June. We have named it the Cherry Republic Experience and its goal will be to bring memorable and heartfelt events to customers […]

Dreaming Up the Next 25 Years

Last year, Cherry Republic celebrated its first 25 years of existence. As we start our second 25 years, we thought we’d share some dreams we hope to accomplish by the time we are 50. So here is a rainbow of ideas and though some might seem farfetched to you, each of these dreams have been discussed within […]

Lake Michigan Ice Cave Exploration

For the second year in a row, frigid temperatures over Lake Michigan have left it nearly 60% frozen. Those cold temperatures coupled with the strong winds we’ve had over the past month are the perfect ingredients for the formation of ice caves. There were ice caves on Lake Michigan last year, but none had formed so far this year. Until […]

New Labels and New Packaging

2015 will be the year of biggest change ever in the life of Cherry Republic! It’s going to be an exciting ride, and we are inviting our customers and friends to come along by sharing a peek at some of these major projects in a series of posts in the coming weeks. This first one is […]

Valentine's Day Giveaway Winners

Two weeks ago we asked you to suggest someone you thought should be our Valentine. Whether it was someone who needed a little cheering up, someone who is just totally awesome and deserving of some recognition, a dear friend, or someone you admire from afar, we wanted to know. The response was overwhelming. We had over […]

The Quest for the True Cherry Pie

Our True Cherry Pie. Simple and delicious. They fly off the shelves as quickly as we can bake them. It’s become one of our signature products. But few people enjoying a slice of our True Cherry Pie on a balmy summer’s day know of the desperate 40-mile journey through the teeth of the worst blizzard […]

A Skate to School Across Glen Lake

Setting off on the annual hike to school Somehow, the stars aligned to make the whimsical and uniting annual Sutherland family walk to school happen in the middle of winter. We hiked on Tuesday and planned to take a shortcut across Big Glen Lake. I excitedly thought we would set a new record time for this seven-mile […]

Bringing Cherry Pie to the Italian Countryside

The restaurant and bed-and-breakfast at Agriturismo Signur Set in a mountainous northern Italian village, only 30 minutes from Lake Como, Agriturismo Signur is a picturesque contradiction of old world Italian farmstead-charm and modern Ikea esthetic. The property is host to a bed and breakfast, farm to table restaurant, u-pick berry farm, and a handful of donkeys, […]

31 Days of Giving

Cherry Republic is excited to share one of the most meaningful practices of the year: Our month of giving. We did it last year. And the year before. Our donations come from our 1% Off the Top program where one cent of every dollar we make is put aside for protecting and improving the quality of […]

Chocolate Cherry Banana Bread

This banana bread recipe is an adaptation of a recipe I grew up with as a kid! My mom would always split the batches into two parts – one with nuts and one without (for me). The recipe is delicious. It’s just the way I think banana bread should be: moist, dense, and intensely flavorful. In the past, I’ve used […]

The Holidays in the Republic

Ahhh, the Great Hall is so peaceful this Wednesday morning while all that Christmas rush is happening in other parts of Cherry Republic. A brief thaw over the last week had us wondering if we’d miss out on a white Christmas this year. The snow melted, and even the ice on Little Glen – which […]

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