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Adopt a Cherry Tree in Our Orchard
Adopt a full size Electric Cherry tree and receive 6KGs of the best export quality cherries from your tree along with receiving updates throughout the year, showing you the growth stages of your cherry tree.
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Adopt your Cherry Tree
Choose how many years you would like to adopt a tree in the orchard for, choose the variety and estimated date to recieve your cherries.
Name the Cherry Tree
Let us know the name of your tree and your family name and we make a certificate and a plaque to place at the orchard.
Follow the Journey
When you adopt a cherry tree you get a login to your dashboard where we will share updates through out the year.
We hand pick your cherries
At the end of the year we will hand pick you the best 6kg of amazing cherries from your tree to enjoy. Including our huge export grade cherries.
Receive your Harvest
Your adoption includes free shipping of your cherries to anywhere in New Zealand. Keep an eye on your dashboard for delivery updates.
Thank you for coming on the Electric Cherries journey with us.
Try New Zealand's Best & Biggest Cherries...
When you adopt a tree, in your cherry delivery we will include some of our biggest cherries normally reserved for premium export markets.
Trees Available
We have a range of different varieties that we grow at the orchard each variety has a slightly different harvest date, choose the date that your family prefers.
Follow the Journey
As we work to grow the cherries on your adopted tree, we will post updates on your dashboard for you to follow along.
Share your Updates.
You can share these updates through a special link to family and friends who are joining you on your journey.
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Give a Cherry Tree as a gift!
The adopt a tree program makes for a great gift to give, once you have purchased a tree you can update contact and address details to your giftee!
24/25 Season Harvest Snaps
Reviews of our cherries
"Oh my GOD our cherries are just incredible!!!! Thank you to all the team, fabulous packaging too. Well done team!🍒 🧡💫"
“My heart is filled with pure delight receiving your amazing cherries today. Thank you so much, I am in cherry heaven 🤣🤣”
“Thank you for the delivery of the cherries. We are well on the way to eating them, have given some to family and friends. They fantastic big juicy and AAA+++ tasting.”
“These cherries are simply delicious and cannot be beaten. Juicy, succulent morsels that the whole family cannot get enough great job Forest Lodge Orchard. You have a customer for life in us.”
Supporting growing change
When you adopt one of our electric cherry tree's you are supporting
our mission here at forest lodge orchard to grow food in a way that is more sustainable and better for the planet.
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Better for the Planet
Zero fossil fuels used on farm
100% electric grown cherries
We will email a certificate of adoption for you to proudly display that you're supporting change with how New Zealand grows its food.
Come on the farming Journey
We're excited to be opening up sharing the electrification journey with the rest of New Zealand. Join Rachel, Rebecca, Mike & Euan on the farm for updates.
Adopt a Tree
Choose how many seasons to adopt for
For each adopted season we will send you 6kg of cherries from your tree
Watch the updates on progress
Get access to a dashboard to track your tree's updates
Get your cherries when they're ready
We ship you cherries included in your price anywhere in Aotearoa
Once you adopt your chosen tree you will receive a login to your dashboard where you can follow along with the growing journey.
When your cherries are at their best we will pick the cherries from your tree and ship them to you. We expect to send you 6KG of cherries from each tree. Your shipping is included in the price of adoption.
Adopt your Tree
Adopt a Tree FAQ
Lapin - Lapin Cherries are known for their dark red colour, being crisp, juicy and with a beautiful sweet taste. Â We find our Lapin Cherries grow the largest of all of our varieties and are a popular choice of Cherry lovers. Â
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Kootenay - Kootenay is a mutation of the Lapin variety, is usually slightly later, with large, firm, juicy dark red skin.
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Sweetheart - Sweetheart Cherries have a distinct heart-shape to them, a beautiful bright red colour and are crunchy with a sweet taste.
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Sentennial - Sentennial Cherries are our last variety to ripen which we think gives it the best taste. Â They are juicy, ruby-red and beautifully firm.
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Please check your spam and/or junk folder first. Â if you still can not find the confirmation email, please contact us at cherries@forestlodge.nz
We understand that things happen, so please contact us on our email address cherries@forestlodge.nz
Absolutely, no problem at all. Please email us and give us your order details and we will do that for you. This can happen anytime up until the week before your chosen delivery window.
We will update you closer to the time with a delivery window.  We use NZ Post’s perishable goods overnight service. This means that they will be shipped on the day before your selected delivery date, so that they arrive as fresh as possible on your selected delivery date.
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‍You will then receive a NZ Post notification email from us saying your “Electric Cherries’ are about to be on their way. This is us getting ready to send your cherries, we do this a couple days out so we are ready to go with harvest and to let you know that if you need to make any address changes or change delivery date window, this is the time.
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You will get a tracking number in the days leading up to dispatch. This is us, getting ready to ship your cherries. Use this tracking number for any queries around delivery direct to NZ Post. Please feel free to let us know as we want you to get our cherries on time and at their absolute best. Email us on cherries@forestlodge.nz
Please don’t click this as it adds 24 hours onto your delivery. This is a NZ Post system, as it takes them this time to change the address and where the parcel is sent.
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If you contact us directly we can change the postage label before it even gets into the hands of the courier. This is best done as soon as you get the postage notification from us in the 2 days prior to cherries being sent.
Yes, but we are not currently sending to the far North Island rural addresses as we have found that the time it takes to get there especially in the summer heat means the cherries don’t arrive at their best. If you can get them sent to a nearby non rural we really encourage that, especially in the North Island.
Please contact us asap on email cherries@forestlodge.nz
We grow Rainier, Lapins, Sweetheart, Ranier and Kootenay.
At this stage we don't expect to have any varieties that are ready pre-Christmas however our Rainier (White) Cherry is our only variety that potentially could be ready. Â This White Cherry variety has a small ripening window and is most affected by weather conditions leading up to harvest. Â If not picked by Christmas, this variety will be ready by New Year.
Absolutely, please visit our corporate orders page to place your order.
Yes, Our normal presale will open again in October 2025.