Phil Halstead

Sure.

My name is Phil Halstead.

I am co-founder with my wife, Sarah Red Truck Orchards.

I'm calling from our farm here in Northport, Michigan.

And Red Truck Orchards produces vinegar from cherries.

We live on a cherry farm.

And our cherries are a super fruit.

So they're full of these natural anthocyanins, which act as antioxidants and anti-inflammatories in our bodies.

Our cherry vinegar is good for you.

It tastes great.

And it's made and bottled right here on the farm.

Cherries are a big thing like in New York, Utah, obviously in Northwest.

But up here in Michigan, we call it the tart cherry capital of the world.

It's here in Traverse City, Michigan.

We're just north of there.

It's a great cherry pie.

And our vinegar is made from these tart Montmorency cherries that have these health benefits, but also very flavorful with the mix in also sweet cherries like those that you buy in the grocery store.

Kind of.

What we've done is create a proprietary process in which we take the whole cherry without the pit.

Instead of taking cherry juice and just letting it ferment, we take the whole cherry, yes, with yeast, create this exceptional wine, and then we destroy it