Talking about how to grow aronia (chokeberry), elderberry, and haskap (honeyberry)
Aronia, Elderberry, Haskap
One is quite healthy but tastes awful. One is very juicy and suited to processing. And one is suited to eating fresh.
In this episode we look at 3 fruit crops: aronia (a.k.a. chokeberry), elderberry, and haskap (a.k.a. honeyberry).
Agronomist Laurie Brown from Cultur'Innov explains how to grow these minor fruit crops, talks about the opportunities for growers, and tells us where they’re at in terms of commercialization.
Co-operative Model
Cultur'Innov is a co-op focused on lesser-known fruit, nuts, and forest crops such as ginseng and mushrooms. This Quebec multi-stakeholder co-operative has both farmers and employees as members.
Agronomist Laurie Brown from Cultur’Innov
The co-op helps its farmer members with different aspects of production:
Understanding crop opportunities
Setting up for a crop
Growing the crop
Processing opportunities
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course on No-Fuss Fruit for Northern Gardeners
Covering more than 20 fruits, the focus is easy-to-grow fruit suited to northern gardens. Fruits include cherry-family crops, currants, cane fruit such as raspberry and blackberry, elderberry, serviceberry and saskatoon, haskap, plum family, medlar, melon, husk cherries...and more! Find out more here.