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Minnesota Rare Fruit Growers

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CherimoyaDude:
Does anyone know if there is anything like CRFG in Minnesota or know of any good gardening / farming groups? I might end up having to move there in the next few years and would like to continue my hobby. This would be for growing outside, not space station / heated greenhouse tropicals.

Francis_Eric:
Hi I had a Post wrote, but not sure where anyways here is one site Mid west fruit growers
I have more . Kinda far but I will look.

http://www.midfex.org/

If your into grapes you may want to grow  Elmer Swenson grapes
Here is a list of different fruits that grow up that way.
(I also know pawpaws can grow up that far you may want early ripening like Jerry Lehman's VE -21
(I guessed it stood for Very Early when I bought seeds off Him  I guess I was wrong VE is Valley East)

(you maybe able to grow Cornelian cherries as well which taste like cherry
 ( cornelian cherry or edible dog wood as not a actual cherry) 

https://mnhardy.umn.edu/varieties/fruit

bussone:

--- Quote from: CherimoyaDude on April 03, 2022, 06:32:41 PM ---Does anyone know if there is anything like CRFG in Minnesota or know of any good gardening / farming groups? I might end up having to move there in the next few years and would like to continue my hobby. This would be for growing outside, not space station / heated greenhouse tropicals.

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Consider thimbleberries (rubus parviflorus). Likes cool moist shade. Happy around Lake Superior and northern Lake Michigan. Hates drought, does not like fruiting in heat. The Great Lakes variety is white-flowering. There is also a pink-flowering, but this is from the west coast. It is, however, more heat-tolerant.

Pink: https://oikostreecrops.com/products/pink-thimbleberry-seeds/?search=thimbleberry
White: https://hartmannsplantcompany.com/retail/product/thimbleberry-raspberry/

I've found the plants are almost obnoxiously vigorous (read: can be weedy). Not thorny. In Philadelphia, the pinks definitely set fruit and I think some of my whites have. The birds usually beat me to the berries. Not as fruitful as raspberries, at least so far. Dry-ish fruit, looks and tastes like a raspberry. Detaches in a thimble shape. Makes for a really good (and expensive) jam.

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