At 2,500 feet of elevation, Brad Fowler’s high altitude cherry block stands at the base of Mount Hood in Parkdale, Oregon, where cold weather is one of his biggest challenges. (TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower) Planting 60 percent Lapins. Wrapping trunks with insulation. Expecting some trees to die every year. Growing cherries at 2,500 feet in the Oregon Cascades takes some unusual tricks. Of Brad Fowler’s 300 acres of cherries, roughly 80 stand just uphill from the high-elevation, unincorporated community of Parkdale. His orchard is one of the last along Cooper Spur Road as it winds up the shoulder of Mount […]