Summer Solstice Preserves

6 half-pints of preserves
Source: Steffen's Cherry Orchard (cherries), Tree Ripe Citrus (blueberries)
Recipe: Summer Solstice Preserves, p. 76, Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving, 2006

Tart Cherry Pie Filling

8 pints and 1 12-oz. jar of tart cherry pie filling
Source: Steffen's Cherry Orchard
Recipe: Tart Cherry Pie Filling, p. 174, Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving, 2006
Note: Instructions weren't clear about dividing juice from cherries. I drained juice and used 4 cups and stored the rest and added the cherries in straight from the colander. There was definitely more juice than the extra four cups in the recipe. The filling was very thick...consider draining cherries, use four cups for sauce, store four cups and add rest back to the cherries before dumping them in.

Frozen Cherries

4 quarts plus a bit of frozen cherries
Source: Steffen's Cherry Orchard

Dehydrated Cherries

1 quart and 1 pint of dried cherries
Source: Steffen's Cherry Orchard
Recipe: drained pitted cherries in colander before spreading on trays (got a good-sized bottle of yummy cherry juice for the fridge, too)
Notes: next time use screens on dehydrator trays, as they dried the cherries drooped and wrapped themselves around the slats

Spirited Cherries

7 half-pints of spirited cherries
Source: Steffen's Cherry Orchard
Recipe: Spirited Cherries, p. 155, Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving, 2006
Notes: used approx. 7-1/2 c of pitted cherries, had about 1.5 pints of juice/syrup leftover

Steffen's Cherry Orchard

This morning we did U-pick cherries. We picked four 5-quart buckets with roughly half and half of Montmorency and Balaton varieties. I packed up two five-pound bags for the freezer which will become tart cherry pie filling, three cups in the freezer to make Summer Solstice Preserves when we get more Tree Ripe Blueberries, six dehydrator trays for dried cherries, and a batch of Spirited Cherries. Of course, there were some for snacking, too.Yum!

ETA: picked one more bucket on 7/15/13 for frozen cherries.