We have been canning green beans, peaches, cherries, and blackberry jam. Someone who works at a cherry farm gave us 300 lbs of cherries this year. After 34 hours straight sorting, washing, pitting and canning with 3 hours of sleep I was happy to be done. Two coolers short of finishing my wife said, "why don't you stop and use the rest as garden fertilizer." My answer was, "are you kidding? Do you know how much these cherries are worth ? Next year we may get no cherries."
Last year there was a poor crop do to a late freeze and we received none.