Picking cherries. Well, at least arranging, organising and supervising 40+ pickers to get the fruit from tree to packhouse.
First day off in 12, and everyone has been around 13 hours' worth, and the two-hour return commute makes it a long day. But it has been worth it.
The price for our export varieties just keeps climbing and climbing, and there is heaps of it still on the trees. That's great for the farm manager who has nursed the orchard through to this point, and is one of the best orchard operators I have worked under (well, the best).
My biggest problem is having to sample the fruit for ripeness every morning. Going up and down rows across the orchard, tasting for taste and colour... oh well, someone has to do it!