The Property

Cherry Dog Orchards raises fruit trees using currently acceptable organic practices. Our cherries, peaches and apples are grown with love! Water from the Carson River behind our farm is used to irrigate the property.

Our farmhouse was built in 1976 and the owners planted orchards sometime in the 1990’s. The Sweets bought the farm in approximately 2011 and cared for the property utilizing organic practices.

We bought the farm in 2018 and have continued with the practices that we were taught by the former owners; thoughtful planning, organic pest control and a respect for the crops we grow and the land we steward. We live and work in an environment that utilizes the natural resources that we have in abundance, rich soil, clean water and lots of sunshine!

The Family

Karen and Louie, partners in life and in farming, spend most of their free time caring for the trees, gardens and animals of Cherry Dog Orchards. Their granddaughter Adrienne, is a happy helper in every area, but especially with the animals. No one can catch a chicken like Adrienne! Our six adult offspring like summers on the farm, especially floating the Carson River to our dock with an inner tube just for cocktails (peach sangria anyone?).

The Chickens

Our flock of 30+ chickens are cage free, happy birds who are fed a largely organic diet but also like to snack on our leftovers as well as excess fruit and vegetables found during growing season. We believe that they are our partners in the orchard, as they aerate and fertilize the soil surrounding our trees as well as act as natural pest managers.

The Cherry Dogs

Our name comes from our original Cherry Dog, Maggie, who loved to eat cherries on the ground the first summer that we lived in Fallon. Sadly, Maggie decided that chickens were too much fun to chase and nip, so she is now known as Midtown Mags and lives happily with our daughter in Midtown Reno. Our Cherry Dog is now Bear, a beautiful Great Pyrenees-Anatolian mix that we adopted from Winnemucca. She loves to herd the chickens and considers them her responsibility.