[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Kawhill....Any additional comments on cherry trees or cherry wood?

I'll add these; Cherry Blossoms are beautiful in the spring. (Kawazu Cherry Blossom Festival)

Cherry wood...like other fruit woods you can use it for smoking.

Wood working... A good even grained wood for furniture which starts out with a lite pinkish/yellow color but darkens with time and age.

The fruit. I love the taste of the fruit. Tillamook dairy makes a Black Cherry Ice cream. (Not dairy product, full milk fat ice cream.) Incredible taste! Here is a Youtube from Jenny's European Bakery on making a Cherry Pie

Jenny's European Bakery... Juicy Cherry Pie Recipe with Flaky Crust – Pure Heaven!

But, we are in Kansas... Osage Orange Slide....we have a lot of Osage Orange trees planted along the boundry of farms. Take an osage orange, plant it along the lines of your section, in a few years string your barbed wire on the new trees. Also called Bois 'd Arc tree because it was used by the Plains Indians to make bows. (There are a number of videos on guys making bows from Osage wood. Here is one! )

Osage Bow Build.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

(Yes....I know....the pictures are NOT black cherry!)

[jroehl]

I loved both of your videos. Thank you!

[deks]

ping...

interesting video of hand made bow out of Osage Orange

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MckLSv_jCHk

[Diana in Wisconsin]

No dark cherry in our neck of the woods...and only ONE Hickory tree, which we are guarding with our lives, LOL!

I do grow the dwarf, sour pie cherry ‘Northstar’ - we have two trees - last year was a bumper crop.

https://www.jungseed.com/product/J30745/641

Those cherries are also good for making ‘(President) George Washington’s Cherry Bounce’

https://www.almanac.com/recipe/george-washingtons-cherry-bounce