Natalie, 16, greets customers and weighs the cherries they pick, using an old brass-beamed platform scale. Picking buckets hold about 15 pounds of cherries, and most U-pick customers will fill one or two. Photo by richard lehnert For several decades, Klenk Orchards has been an island of sweet cherries in a sea of apples. In this land versus sea analogy, land is winning. Rodney Klenk is growing more cherries—45 acres now—and fewer apples—120 acres—and more of his Fruit Ridge neighbors are adding sweet cherries to their orchards as well. “Don’t make me out to be some kind of genius,” Rodney […]