“That Saskatoon moon is calling to me…” Connie Kaldor’s tune seems like an apt theme song for this year. And why is that? I ...

Jackie BantleSaskatchewanLast week I picked my first pail of raspberries. The week before that, I was eating fresh haskap ...

The saskatoon berry gets its name from the Cree word misaskatomina meaning “fruit from the tree with many branches.” For many generations, the saskatoon berry has been a hardy prairie food source.

The Pennsylvania native serviceberry has many names depending on the region. In some locations, it is known as the Shadbush, Juneberry, or even Sugarplum, to name a few. Serviceberry trees can ...

The term saskatoon reputedly is a bastardization of the Cree Indian word misâskwatômina, which means “the fruit of the tree of many branches.” This is a fair description. Saskatoon plants can be ...

The berry is such a source of pride in Canada that it drives a few thousand enthusiasts each year to gather in the town of Mortlach, Saskatchewan, for the Saskatoon Berry Festival — a get ...

DuCheney is a cabinet maker who started growing the berries on his three acres in 2008, to make some extra money after the economy here crashed in 2008. Now he's one of about 20 saskatoon growers ...

The Canadians call the fruits Saskatoon berries. In the United States the Amelanchier may be called the Serviceberry, Sarvisberry, Juneberry, Shadbush and Shadblow. Early settlers to these shores ...

The berry, Amelanchier alnifolia Nutt., is actually a member of the apple family and grows as a high bush or small tree and is native the northern plains and also goes by the names of serviceberry ...