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What a wonderful community that came together to help! It would be a good thing to have a place for the workers to live and they pay before they left, after working the cherries.
No I think the people that live here do the working at harvest.
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Andria, most of our ag work is done by migrant workers and a few of the local teens. It’s rare to see local adults getting involved in the harvesting, though there have been times when older adults (retirees) would step in to help with office work, sorting, packaging, etc. during a very busy harvest season.
My father sorted cherries one summer, for a few weeks. It’s hard work too, but he was happy to have the extra money that year because he was making a trip back East to visit us at the end of that summer.
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Nice Ruby, but i am only good at eating fruits and whatsoever our body needs. There is no one to manage the planting.We are all having active jobs plus my siblings never like to dirty soil.
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Nice article! Actually, I love eating fruits but unfortunately not many people will like going to agriculture and/or farming because of its tedious state. Nevertheless, this article goes a long way to encourage those in the field. Thanks for posting this wonderful article.
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We also have trouble finding people willing to do the harvesting work. It is very difficult and tedious work, and because it’s seasonal a lot of the locals don’t want to do it. We’re very fortunate that we attract cherry pickers from outside our province.
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Yeah because sometimes some people don’t find it fascinating doing it anyway. But the truth of the matter is that its still a wonderful way in which most locals earn their living.
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Here, most of our locals are not involved in the harvesting unless they make a full-time job of doing agricultural work. We have a lot of smaller homesteads that grow cherries, apples or grapes, and they will hire workers just for the harvest.
But many of these businesses can only afford to have seasonal help. And because it’s seasonal, most of our locals choose to look elsewhere for work. They need something that will carry them throughout the whole year.
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These people who stepped up are very special indeed! A lot of folks here figured the cherry pickers ought to come prepared to feed themselves until they get paid, but I don’t think anyone warns them about this and they are often very young. They probably expect to be housed and fed on the job site. What a terrible surprise to arrive and discover they often can’t even book a campsite!
It is really tough work, and I’m glad some of our locals are wanting to help. These young migrant workers sure help us!
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Barb, our young cherry pickers are university students who mostly come from Quebec. So they’re probably about 19 at the youngest, and more would likely be in their early 20s. We do get a few local teens who help with the harvest too, often starting around the age of 15 or 16. But like your husband, they live at home while working.
The agricultural work here is regulated by the same government agency that sets the rest of our labour laws. The workers get paid by the amount they harvest (in pounds, bushels, or whatever measurement is commonly used for the specific food item they’re picking.) Best I can tell, the minimum piece rate for cherry picking in BC is $0.228/pound. I think some orchards do pay the cherry pickers a better wage than others, though.
I know one of our local gentlemen was saying just the other day that his slowest picker earned $100 that day alone. I hear that some of the pickers are fast enough to make up to $500 in a day. That’s an awful lot of cherries to pick in a day!
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That wonderful. The truth remains that those who are serious and love what they do will always get the best out of it.
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That’s for sure! If you love your job it will never seem like work 🙂
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Yeah. Truly. Because most times, you see it as hobbies and not work because of the love and passion you have for it.
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Indeed, such noble causes are laudable.
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Yes, cherry is one of the best fruit of nature created for human being but not for all because there are many countries where there no cherry trees and in such countries cherry are imported from the foreign countries. I like black cherry because it is becomes of minerals and vitamins as I have read in medical books.
Its title is very nice and attractive, feed the needy and its reward feeds us on earth in heaven also Cherry pickers make a very holy job picking the cherry for others to eat in different countries.
I think this job is very delightful If were in the cherry garden I st there all alone and improvise many a verses for future generation.
as I say to the cherry pickers:
O Gleeful cherry pickers, pick the cherry for others
Eating the cherries prays are released by the mothersJH Sayyar
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