Growing Cherries

At 5 a.m. it is still dark outside. But Kevin Aiken has been awake for an hour. Kevin is a farmer. He grows cherries near Wenatchee, Washington. In the orchard, Kevin stops at an irrigation pipe. He turns a big wheel on the pipe. Water spouts from sprinklers under the cherry trees.

This area does not have enough rainfall to grow fruit trees. Instead, Kevin uses water from the Columbia River to water the trees. Pumps move the river water to the cherry trees.

Water from the Columbia River is used to grow cherry trees.