By MATTHEW LAMBERT
Agri-News 

Minnesota fruit farm has a variety of unique berries

 

January 7, 2018



WINONA, Minn. (AP) — The various types of berries Blue Fruit Farm offers are so unique that owners Jim Riddle and Joyce Ford have turned the tables, teaching local extension about growing them.

"There's just not much university research on anything except blueberries. They just don't know about growing black currants or elderberries," Riddle told Agri-News .

Blue Fruit Farm is an organic farm outside of Winona that has sold blueberries, cherry plums, elderberries, honeyberries and black currants alongside blueberries for six years.

While growing vegetables to be sold at the Winona Farmers Mark...



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