5 Small Fruit Crops: Taste Sea Buckthorn (and Smell the Blue Cheese of Fruit)

Talking about how to grow sea buckthorn, highbush cranberry, hardy kiwi, bush cherries, and chokecherry

Specialty Fruit Crops

We continue our chat with agronomist Laurie Brown from Cultur'Innov. She talks about 5 more minor fruit crops, how to grow them, and the opportunities they present for growers.

We talk about:

• Sea buckthorn

• Highbush cranberry

• Hardy kiwi

• Bush cherries

• Chokecherry

• Agroforesty

• Tips for growers who want to grow specialty fruit crops

"It's the blue cheese of fruit: Tastes like a cranberry and smells like an old boot!"

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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