Haskap Presentation, Salmon Arm, BC

This is the link to High Mountain Farm's compilation of presentations given at Salmon Arm, BC on march 24, 2015: http://www.haskapbc.com/#!haskap-seminar-salmon-arm/c1h2i



It includes video presentations on:

• Haskap biology, plants, and growing systems
• Establishing and maintaining a Haskap orchard
• Recent and ongoing research
• Marketing Haskap
• Harvesting and using Haskap
• Haskap in the Shuswap
• Q & A

Haskap Day 2015 Agenda, June 26 - Part 1

 Here is the agenda for Haskap Day 2015, which is sponsored yearly at the University of Saskatchewan's Horticulture Field Laboratory, Saskatoon, SK.

This year Haskap Day will be held on June 26...

8:00AM	Haskap Day Agenda, 2015
	8:30 - 9:00 Registration
9:00AM	9:00 – 9:30 Introduction to Haskap and Horticulture Field Facilities
	9:30 – 12:30 Tour of Haskap Fields We will visit various fields.  Bob Bors will point out plants of interest in each field.  There will be ample time to talk to growers and staff, and to sample berries.  This is a good opportunity to ask questions either about your own plants or the things you see in our fields.
10:00AM
11:00AM
12:00 NOON	12:30 – 1:30 Lunch
1:00PM
	1:30 – 2:30 U of S Haskap Research Updates Bob Bors: Haskap Breeding, New research Projects James Dawson: Haskap Nutraceuticals Bayartulga: Greenhouse Haskap, Nutrients for Haskap Plants
2:00PM
	2:30-3:30 Presentations by Growers & Groups Haskap Canada Update IRAP: 4 kinds of grants available for growers Various Propagators These will be 10 minute (or so) talks. Some will be impromptu interviews of growers. If you have a specific topic you want to present, email Bob.bors@usask.ca
3:00PM
	3:30 – 4:00 Growers Forum Open discussions, Questions and Answers. This portion may start earlier if not enough grower presentations occur.
4:00PM
	Note: our facility closes at 4:30, so everyone must leave before then

FLOWER POWER!!!

In keeping with our emphasis on the importance of pollination, here are a few links to articles that cover a new exhibit assembled by The Royal Saskatchewan Museum and now on display, entitled Insects, Flowers, and Food.    

http://www.prairiedogmag.com/2015-05-28/flower-power/

http://globalnews.ca/news/2000016/people-buzzing-about-new-exhibit/

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/bees-bugs-flowers-focus-of-new-royal-saskatchewan-museum-exhibit-1.3075921

The  designers used one of Haskap Canada's photos in a multi-media presentation, which shows Dr. Bob in the field last summer on Haskap Day 2014.  Why not stop by and view their exhibit when you're in town!

Bob Bors: Announcing Haskap Grower's Guide And Visits To Grower's Orchards, 2015 - 2016

Dr. Bob Bors, 2014 Haskap Day Field Tour, U of SK

A sabbatical has been officially approved for Dr. Bob Bors.  From July 1, 2015 until June 30, 2016 Bob will be working on finishing up a grower’s manual for Haskap!  He is also planning on visiting Haskap growers, as his schedule allows.  In conjunction with these visits he would like to offer seminars as well as to provide advice in the field.  If a grower’s group, for example, were able to host a seminar, he would then be able to visit numerous sites in that region.  If, however, there is no grower’s group in your area this should not deter you from sending him an invitation if you are willing to invite others to your orchard who will benefit from his visit.

If you are interested in hosting an event or in inviting him to spend some time in your orchard you are invited to email him at Bob.bors@usask.ca so that he can start a database for possible visits.  In the subject line please add the words: Sabbatical Visit.  Please describe to him your interest and/or experience with Haskap.  He will need to know your location (your nearest town is good enough).  If he is able to be in your region he will be contacting you.

Remember, we at Haskap Canada ideally consider that Haskap is a resource that is able to improve an entire community as a whole.  Growers who also provide information and assistance to others in their region help an entire community to achieve a healthier, more bountiful life.  Your invitation to him should ideally reflect your experience at having done so, or your plans to do so.

During his sabbatical he will also be attending gene banks and nursery industry opportunities.  The invitation on this post is specifically aimed at growers who care about their respective communities.

What a great opportunity!  I guess that doctors still do make house calls!!!

New Brunswick Haskap Workshop

Dr. Bob Bors will be speaking at a workshop in St-Basile, New Brunswick on October 25th.  Don Northcott (Phytocultures) will also speak.  Weather permitting there will be a tour of a Haskap orchard.  For more detailed information click here.

2014 Haskap Day - July 18

One week from today the University of Saskatchewan will once again host its annual Haskap Day at its Horticulture Field Lab located on 14th St. in Saskatoon, SK..  All seven haskap fields will be on the tour which leaves from the lab at 9:15 a.m..  Bob Bors will provide a research and breeding update at 1:00 p.m., and will be followed by James Dawson's presentation on the neutraceutical value of haskap fruit.  Then Bayartugla Lkhagvsuren will speak on the ecology of wild haskap and haskap plant nutrition.  A grower forum will end the afternoon session.

*Note: If it has rained in the past week please bring boots that are suitable for walking in heavy, wet clay in the field.  Park along the south side of 14th Street, please.  Registration is $25 and begins at 8:30 a.m..  Pizza for lunch will be available for a cost of $5.

http://www.fruit.usask.ca/articles/Haskap%20Day%202014.pdf

Haskap Day - U of SK 2013 (6)

Afternoon Presentations

Bob Bors - U of SK breeding program update
James Dawson - Neutriceutical/Phytochemical discussion
Loretta Bors - Development of cookbook
Curtis Braaten - Raised bed planting
Cory Sheffield (unable to attend) - Pollination Study
Hamish Graham - Hydroplanting
Haskap Canada - Update
Open Forum

*Anyone with recipes for haskap and would like them included in the cookbook is encouraged to contact Loretta Bors (lorettaborsathotmaildotcom)or Lil Sawatzky (lilymaeatsaskteldotcom).

Haskap Day - U of SK 2013 (4)

Field Evaluation of Plants and Fruit

This is a mature edible blue honeysuckle berry from an edible blue honeysuckle plant that is native to Canada.

These plants (below) were collected from all across Canada...some even emerge with red leaves in the spring...does this indicate different anthocyanin composition?

If neutriceutical value is found in the skin of fruit, does that mean that odd-shaped varieties, such as this one of Japanese parentage, have a greater health value?

Haskap Day 2013 - July 19, 2023

One week from tomorrow the University of Saskatchewan will host this year's Haskap Day at their Horticulture Field Lab.

Updated information will be presented concerning harvest, yields, and ages of haskap involving various varieties for machine and hand picking .  There will be an explanation of the various pollinator projects that are currently under way.  Marketing initiatives will be discussed.  Dr. Bob Bors will update participants on new varieties and James Dawson will discuss phytonutrients.   There will be tours of the haskap orchard.  Lunch will be $5 per person for pizza.  We hope to see you there!

U of SK, Haskap, And North American Market

Haskap Day 2013

Haskap Day this year will be held on Friday, July 19 at the University of Saskatchewan's Horticulure Field Lab, Saskatoon, SK.  The day will feature talks by Dr. Bob Bors, and doctoral student James Dawson will report on various compounds he has discovered in Haskap while doing his research .  There will be introductions to new graduate students and their respective fields of inquiry. Industry updates will be addressed by the Haskap Canada Association, who will also speak about some of their new initiatives. As always there will be field tours, which are continuing to break open new insights as these plants continue to mature.  Starting time is 10:00 a.m..

Haskap Berries, Antioxidant Capacity, Total Phenolic Content, And Health Benefits - A 2012 Study

Here is the abstract of a publication published in 2012 and covering antioxidants and phenolics in haskap:

Rupasinghe, H. P. V., Yu, L. J., Bhullar, K. S. and Bors, B. 2012. SHORT COMMUNICATION: Haskap (Lonicera caerulea): A new berry crop with high antioxidant capacity. Can. J. Plant Sci. 92: 1311 1317. This study evaluated the antioxidant capacity and total phenolic content as well as total flavonoid content of three haskap (Lonicera caerulea) cultivars, Borealis, Indigo Gem and Tundra, grown in Saskatchewan in comparison with six other commercial fruits using ferric reducing antioxidant power (FRAP) assay, oxygen radical absorbance capacity (ORAC) assay, the 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) free radical scavenging assay, the aluminum chloride colorimetric method and the Folin-Ciocalteu method, respectively. The results indicate that haskap berries, especially cv. Borealis possessed the highest antioxidant capacities and total phenolic contents, specifically total flavonoid among tested fruits, and could be used as a promising fruit source of natural antioxidants. The nutritional values of the fruits were also assessed using proximate analysis.  Strawberry possessed the highest amount of most minerals and nutrients, whereas the nutritional values for the three haskap cultivars were average.

To read the entire study for free go to either: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=gmail&attid=0.1.1&thid=13ec7e461f50d582&mt=application/pdf&url=https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui%3D2%26ik%3D8580447990%26view%3Datt%26th%3D13ec7e461f50d582%26attid%3D0.1.1%26disp%3Dsafe%26zw&sig=AHIEtbSrt5fySeU181oHsdaapwHDPVfS5A

or

http://ebookbrowse.com/haskap-a-new-berry-crop-with-high-antioxidant-capacity-2012-pdf-d463292541

Haskap: U.S.A. Inquiries

Haskap Canada has received numerous inquiries from people in the United States about the availability of haskap there. In response to these inquiries the president of Haskap Canada, Dave Negrych, contacted Dr. Maxine Thompson in hopes that she might assist him in tracking down contacts in that country who can supply edible blue honeysuckle. He already knew that Dr. Thompson is a researcher and does not supply plants. But he received a most gracious and encouraging response from her. We publish it here, with her permission:
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Dear Dave,

Yes, I am familiar with your website and blog. You folks do a wonderful job of promoting blue honeysuckle. There are several US nurseries that sell the Russian cultivars, called "honeyberries". Jim Gilbert of the nursery, 'One Green World' in Oregon has been selling this form of honeysuckle for several years and many nurseries have his selections. However, no nursery in the U.S. has the Japanese subspecies, emphyllocalyx, that I introduced from Japan... My selections are still very experimental because they are not old enough to have good information about their performance. This form of blue honeysuckle is called 'haskap' in Japan and I had hoped to retain this name specifically for the Japanese subspecies in the US in order to differentiate it from honeyberries. The two types have different climatic adaptation, with honeyberries doing poorly in moderate climate regions and Japanese forms well adapted to more moderate climates. However, I have no control over the name and I see that some Canadian nurseries are equating the 2 names. Bob Bors has decided to use it for his selections.... Bob is my friend and I have no quarrel with his choice of nomenclature.

Maxine

(Dr. Maxine Thompson)

First Mechanical Harvest - U of S

This week preparations for the first mechanical harvesting of haskap at the U of S were made. A Joanna harvester was brought in, netting was taken down, and support posts removed. Some rows of haskap itself were also removed so that the machine could operate. (*Note: haskap plantings at the U of S are compact…made so as to best accommodate research practices, space utilization, and the needs of horticultural specialists and research technicians.)

Several rows of haskap were successfully mechanically harvested. The result was very encouraging, reported Dr. Bors. Haskap berries held up better than expected. Branches did not break even though the machine went down centre of the bushes.

At first glimpse it appeared that taller genotypes may have fared better in several respects than did short ones. Yesterday fruit was being sorted and further evaluated.