Here is the link to the 2009 Sunofi-Adventis Biotalent Challenge research project completed by grade 12 student Kirsten Larson - http://www.haskap.ca/studies/biotech%20Project.pdf. Her project entitled, Haskap: An Introduction To The Fruit, Its Health Benefits, and Marketing Potential, won the Commercial Award for the most commercially viable project at the national competition which ran from May 4 - 6, 2009 in Ottawa.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Sunofi-Adventis Biotalent Challenge 2009 Haskap Project
Here is the link to the 2009 Sunofi-Adventis Biotalent Challenge research project completed by grade 12 student Kirsten Larson - http://www.haskap.ca/studies/biotech%20Project.pdf. Her project entitled, Haskap: An Introduction To The Fruit, Its Health Benefits, and Marketing Potential, won the Commercial Award for the most commercially viable project at the national competition which ran from May 4 - 6, 2009 in Ottawa.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Haskap Day 2009
Haskap Day 2009: Tour, Open House, and Trade Show
Friday, July 17, 2009, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Horticultural Field Lab - University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK
Haskap has joined the growing momentum of fruit production on the Canadian prairies. An excellent fruit for a harsh climate; its attributes are better understood year by year. This year Haskap Day is being held in mid-July in order to give producers and enthusiasts a chance to experience and discuss later-season fruit characteristics. Previous years have focused on: introducing haskap, plant characteristics, cultivation practices, and commercial potential.
This year for a fee of $20.00 participants can:
+See different haskap and blue honeysuckles from around the world
+Being Mid July we will see and discuss late-season haskap characteristics in the field
+Receive an ‘experimental haskap’ seedling
+Browse booths at a trade show of haskap products
+Purchase haskap varieties from propagators (the University will only sell its varieties if propagators run out of stock).
(***Note – When purchasing plants please rememberthat two unrelated plants are required for proper pollination.)
Exciting developments since last year’s Haskap Day:
+Significant planting of haskap has occurred across the prairies.
+Last October Dr. Bors gained first-hand knowledge of blue honeysuckle production and marketing in Japan.
+Dr. Bors collected 600 native blue honeysuckle plants across Canada.
+Visitors from industry and research from around the world have visited the university to see this collection and discuss cooperative efforts.
+Nutritional analysis has been performed; neutraceutical possibilities are currently under scrutiny.
+The first virtual international conference on blue honeysuckle was held in May.
+Many new growers have signed onto the university’s Grower Assisted Fruit Program.
+One of the Canadian national Sanofi-Aventis BioTalent finalists presented the benefits of haskap in Ottawa in May.
The impacts of these developments and many more, as well as the timely and important insights of growers themselves can all be discussed in an open-air forum while taking in the tastes of haskap!
For on-line links go to: www.fruit.usask.ca, www.haskap.ca
Interested in having a booth at this event? Contact Rick Sawatzky at 306- 978-8316 or email jrs263@mail.usask.ca. Booths are provided free of charge to licensed propagators, fruit associations, governmental sponsors, and educational associations. A fee of $20.00 is asked of other exhibitors who must provide their own table, unless they have arranged for a table ahead of time with Rick (possibly extra fee).
Friday, July 17, 2009, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Horticultural Field Lab - University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK
Haskap has joined the growing momentum of fruit production on the Canadian prairies. An excellent fruit for a harsh climate; its attributes are better understood year by year. This year Haskap Day is being held in mid-July in order to give producers and enthusiasts a chance to experience and discuss later-season fruit characteristics. Previous years have focused on: introducing haskap, plant characteristics, cultivation practices, and commercial potential.
This year for a fee of $20.00 participants can:
+See different haskap and blue honeysuckles from around the world
+Being Mid July we will see and discuss late-season haskap characteristics in the field
+Receive an ‘experimental haskap’ seedling
+Browse booths at a trade show of haskap products
+Purchase haskap varieties from propagators (the University will only sell its varieties if propagators run out of stock).
(***Note – When purchasing plants please rememberthat two unrelated plants are required for proper pollination.)
Exciting developments since last year’s Haskap Day:
+Significant planting of haskap has occurred across the prairies.
+Last October Dr. Bors gained first-hand knowledge of blue honeysuckle production and marketing in Japan.
+Dr. Bors collected 600 native blue honeysuckle plants across Canada.
+Visitors from industry and research from around the world have visited the university to see this collection and discuss cooperative efforts.
+Nutritional analysis has been performed; neutraceutical possibilities are currently under scrutiny.
+The first virtual international conference on blue honeysuckle was held in May.
+Many new growers have signed onto the university’s Grower Assisted Fruit Program.
+One of the Canadian national Sanofi-Aventis BioTalent finalists presented the benefits of haskap in Ottawa in May.
The impacts of these developments and many more, as well as the timely and important insights of growers themselves can all be discussed in an open-air forum while taking in the tastes of haskap!
For on-line links go to: www.fruit.usask.ca, www.haskap.ca
Interested in having a booth at this event? Contact Rick Sawatzky at 306- 978-8316 or email jrs263@mail.usask.ca. Booths are provided free of charge to licensed propagators, fruit associations, governmental sponsors, and educational associations. A fee of $20.00 is asked of other exhibitors who must provide their own table, unless they have arranged for a table ahead of time with Rick (possibly extra fee).
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Haskap Wins Most Promising Commercial Award!
In the 2009 National Sanofi-Aventis BioTalent Challenge Competition in Ottawa last week, Kirsten Larson of the R.M. of Swan River, Manitoba, overwhelmingly was voted to receive the award for the project with the greatest commercial potential. Her presentation was on the neutriceutical value of haskap. She was awarded a prize of $1,000. Congratulations Kirsten, and thank you for representing us in Ottawa! Other recipients of ASBT awards can be viewed at: http://sanofibiotalentchallenge.ca/2009/05/06/smart-kids-2009-designer-wheat-research-breakthrough-wins-grade-10-saskatchewan-student-16-top-honour-in-national-biotech-competition/ . The firstplace winner was Scott Adams, a grade ten student from Saskatoon, who won with his project on 'designer wheat.' 'Smart kids' every one, indeed!
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Haskap Canada Member's Website Links
If you are a member of Haskap Canada and have a website that includes your production of haskap, then we would like to link to you in our sidebar! Send us your site and well will make sure that others can find you.If you do not have a site, most internet providers will have a page that you they provide free of charge to their customers. They are usually a single page, and simple to construct. If you would rather send us your information then we will edit and blog it here and use the blog as your link.
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