The Field Guideby Moss & MarrowThe Field Guideby Moss & Marrow
Also called zure kersen, morellen, krieken.
In the Netherlands, sour cherries are in season July to August, at their best in July. November is outside the Dutch season for sour cherries.
Sour cherries ripen a little after sweet ones, in July.
Bright red, soft, and too sour to eat by the handful.
Anthocyanins and other polyphenols in higher amounts than sweet cherries, plus vitamin C and potassium.
To get the most: The pigments survive cooking and freezing; the vitamin C does not. A compote keeps most of what makes them interesting.
Content per NEVO, the Dutch food composition database. This describes what the food contains, not what it does for you.
Pit and cook into a compote, or pack into jars with sugar for the winter.
We have not yet recorded crop by crop what each grower sells, so this page cannot name the farms with sour cherries for certain. What we can say: 178 growers in The Field Guide passed our bar for vegetables & fruit grown without sprays, and in July most farm shops and harvest-share gardens among them will have it. Search them near you on the map, and ask.
178 growers on the map →By province: Gelderland (73), Utrecht (59), Noord-Holland (25), Zuid-Holland (20), Elsewhere (1).
Dates read on 2026-10-11. If a window on this page is wrong, tell us with a source.
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