A beautiful double rainbow over the orchard!
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A beautiful double rainbow over the orchard! |
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Chapter 5 - the saga continues... |
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 With covid having wrecked New Years plans already we have the first batch of Haskap Pie Filling and Sundae topping finished by noon on Jan 1, 2021 |
 Cleaning frozen berries manually in very cold conditions! Not fun - but necessary :-( |
 The new look with new jars and upgraded labels! |
 As of March a look at our Haskap product line :-) |
 Display at Miller's Market in Melfort! |
 Another great display at Nutters in Melfort! |
 Info from talk given at Haskap Canada AGM! |
 Dr. Rupasinghe has done a lot of work! |
 Doesn't say anything about how great they are in my oatmeal! |
 More great info! |
 Anthocyanins are very good! |
 About Haskap! Dr. Bob went there and got their best. |
 Potential health benefits! |
 Wow! Great properties of Haskap!! |
 April 10th and the snow is gone early this year! |
 May 14 brings a beautiful double rainbow! |
 May 18 the Indigo Gem are blooming nicely! |
 Then on May 21st we got some white stuff! Good thing Haskaps in bloom can handle frost up to -7! |
 May 31st has some new Saskatoons blooming like crazy! |
 Some really impressive new growth! Guess it likes the conditions! |
 Production batches need to get bigger and bigger. And it's the third one this week! |
 June 19th and an industrious bird shares the orchard with us and her nest of 6 eggs hatching soon! |
 June 22nd looking lush and green!! |
 Heavy production requires hauling lots of sugar for jam! :-D The Haskapmobile is hard at work! |
 July 5th and we are ready to start manually harvesting the first variety of Indigo Gem! |
 July 8th using our berry combine to do a row of large Indigo Gem. A big benefit is getting to clean the berries before they are put in trays going into the freezer! |
 Pressure washing the trays after winter storage! Usually gets done 3-4 times a year :-) |
 July 20th sees great large berries ready to go! |
 And another impressive branch of Haskaps! |
 A busy day of manually picking berries!! Dang leaves :-( |
 July 21st and now Saskatoons are also ready at the U-Pic! |
 Freezer filling up fast with packaged and newly frozen berries! |
 Aug 11th and dugout almost out of water for irrigation. Last year ran out on July 21st - sure made a difference! |
 Found this little critter crawling out of a tray one day - research showed it was harmless but gave a jolt nonetheless. Mother Nature sure designs pretty critters! |
 August 23rd was a busy day of harvesting Beauty! |
 Another look at our friendly spider! |
 Finally our first Sea Buckthorn berries ripening - too bad the birds ended up getting most of them! Can't wait - maybe next year we'll get a harvest! |
 Marlene dressed for the inclement weather while working in the orchard! A few showers didn't stop us! |
 Mother Nature showing off her colours!!! |
 Sept 16 has Chokecherries ready for picking! |
 Sept 17 and the orchard still looks green and lush - almost like a golf course! (With narrow fairways) |
 Harvest time - beautiful from the seat of the combine! |
 The geese are prolific this time of year! They like to sit on swathed cereal crops or in the stubble of the combined fields (eating next years weeds) |
 Sometimes those late nights on the combine are blessed with amazing Northern Light displays! It was 1:42 am when this sequence was taken! :-D |
 Of course the pictures do not do it's beauty justice! |
 As it slowly melted away - awesome!!!!! |
 Oct 30 at the SPCA trade show at KVC Melfort! |
 An interest view while reffing paintball Nov 5th! |
 Nov 21st has production ramping up for Christmas trade show rush! |
 Nov 27th at the Gronlid Hall! |
 Dec 10 and the orchard is resting again for another year! Thanks for following us on this on this amazing journey! |
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 Renouf Farms, Melfort, Saskatchewan. |
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