Red Truck Orchards

08/25/2026

08/22/2026

✨️ Reserve your timeslot for the most scenic blood drive in America! Wednesday 8/26 at the Northport, MI Marina in the Versiti Blood Center of Michigan bus. Use the link in our bio to signup!

08/14/2026

📣 Friday (8/14) is the LAST day of upick cherries at Hallstedt Homestead for the 2026 season! Come see us 10am to 6pm for all your cherry needs! Thank you to everyone that has stopped by, we are so thankful to have met so many new faces this season - one of our longest ever at six weeks! ❤️

Hallstedt Homestead Cherries
8227 N Matheson Road
Northport, MI

Don't forget! The farmstand will still be open 24/7 with your Red Truck Orchards Cherry Vinegar Cherry Vinegar/honey/bouquets/etc! ✨️

08/08/2026

Come get a FREE beverage tasting and meet our co-founder/cherry farmer Phil Hallstedt! Can't make it today? Our award winning Cherry Vinegar is available at the Traverse City Meijer and coming soon to the Acme, Cadillac, amd Manistee locations!

07/25/2026

Two ingredient beach mocktail? Done ✅️ ❤️✨️🍒
We like to add a splash of Cherry Vinegar straight into a can of@drinkspindrift - anything citrus is especially yummy! Want to jazz it up? Add a squeeze of lime and some freshly crushed mint leaves for delightful upgrade. 😎

07/17/2026

We love a good shrub cocktail, and with it being cherry season, we wanted to go all out on the cherry flavor! See the full recipe below to make this cherry-forward cocktail at home.

A Very Cherry Shrub 🍒
2-3 mint leaves
1 oz lime juice
2 pitted cherries cut in half
Muddle until cherries and mint are expressed
1.5 oz GTD Cherry Vodka
1 oz Cherry Shrub (recipe below)
Add ice
Top with Leelanau Bottling Company Cherry Limeade Sparkling Water (or regular sparkling water for a lighter option)

Cherry Shrub
In a large mason jar:
2 cups of pitted cherries
1.5 cups of turbinado sugar
Let the sugar and cherries macerate in the fridge overnight
Strain out cherries and collect the juice
Add 1 cup of Red Truck Orchards Cherry Vinegar
Mix, and enjoy!

07/16/2026

Don't take our word for it, check out some of these rave reviews from verified Cherry Vinegar customers! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ + 🍒 = ✨️🥰❤️

07/13/2026

🥹 THANK YOU CHERRY MUCH to everyone that came out for our third sold-out Cherry-Palooza luncheon and upick extravaganza! We heard over and over how great the food was and how much people learned about both cherries and Cherry Vinegar! 🍒

We especially want to thank -

❤️ Chef Jimmy Schmidt Jimmy Schmidt for crafting a creative menu celebrating all things cherries and Cherry Vinegar from Red Truck Orchards Cherry Vinegar

❤️ Joel & Mimi of Willowbrook Mill for your event experience, support, and equipment Willowbrook Mill

❤️ Chef April N. Hackert and her students from Great Lakes Culinary Institute (GLCI) for bringing this event to life Great Lakes Culinary Institute at Northwestern Michigan College

❤️ Pat, the Lord of the Gourd , who was carving funky watermelon faces all day and also shared his personal experience with gout and drinking Cherry Vinegar

❤️ Maria's Hot Sauce Maria The Spicy Chef
& Maria's Sauce Co for using Cherry Vinegar in her limited edition Mon Cherry hot sauce and gracing our tables

❤️ Faro for the drink inspiration - you MUST give their NA Cherry Cherry Cherry drink a try next time you're in Northport, MI FARO northport

❤️ Idyllic Farms for the incredible goat cheese that topped our salad Idyll Farms

❤️ Leelanau Ticker for helping get the word out about this event Leelanau Ticker

❤️ Our incredible Red Truck Orchards staff that did everything from making the vinegar to managing event preparations to weeding flower beds

❤️ All of our team of servers and greeters and college interns and family and slushie dispensers and upick helpers and parking team and the rest of our incredible community of cherry lovers

Missed us this weekend? Upick is still open for another 2-3 weeks at Hallstedt Homestead Cherries! Hallstedt Homestead