GROWING FRUITS

Annette Clarke’s nursery is expanding the definition of what’s growable out east. Tart Chilean guava berries, plump persimmons the size of tomatoes, and pods of blue sausage fruit, also known as dead man’s fingers. This list sounds like an inventory of the world’s most magical fruit aisle, but in fact, all of this exotic produce (and more) is currently sprouting in a massive greenhouse located just outside of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Exotic Fruit Nursery, an operation built an

This PEI company has some innovative machines to quickly harvest berry crops. Push cart harvester: https://acadianmachine.com/push-cart/ Walk behind harvester: https://acadianmachine.com/walk-behind-harvester/

This publication from the University of Missouri goes into great detail on how and why you pollinate your fruit crops. HERE is the link.

A farmer in B.C.’s far north has successfully grown nearly 200 bananas in his greenhouse, just south of the B.C.-Yukon border. Read the article HERE.

A food forest, or edible forest garden, is a food production strategy. The wonderful folks at Tenth Acre Forest posted this helpful blog post on the history of food forests and how to create your own. Read about it HERE.

This man’s collection of lost apples varieties is outstanding! Did you know there used to be 17,000 varieties of apples grown in North America? He has a website that you can buy saplings from! This is a great way to fight back against the destruction of heirloom foods by keeping traditional apple varieties going. Read the full article HERE.

Dr. Michael Tipple and Dennis Mahoney are establishing a new apple orchard in Corner Brook on private property and Crown land. Crooked Tree Orchard on Bonavista Bay is another new site where growers are hoping to produce fruit for local consumption. Read the article HERE.

Growing a wide range of fruit in our climate (Zone 3/4/5) is possible with organic methods inside an unheated greenhouse. This grower in Quebec has demonstrated that he can grow grapes, peaches, apricots and grapes sustainably, and so can we here in Newfoundland using simple, inexpensive organic methods. Read the article HERE.