Tart cherries get Michigan label

Idaho potatoes. Wisconsin cheese. Michigan tart cherries. OK, cherries aren’t there yet. But cherry promoters now have the tool they need to push Michigan cherries into the every day vernacular of grocery shoppers. “It’s like the M-22 sticker,” said Chris Bardenhagen, a Leland Township fruit grower and attorney for the Michigan Cherry Committee who did much of the legwork to create a …