SUNDAY BERRY UPICK and Cocktail IN THE FOOD FOREST THIS SUMM
Fresh Elderberries (Sambucus canadensis)
Fresh Highbush Cranberrries (Viburnum trilobum)
Fresh Highbush Cranberrries (Viburnum trilobum)
Elderberry is one of the most commonly used medicinal plants in the world. It is most often taken as a supplement to treat cold and flu symptoms. However, the raw berries, bark, and leaves are poisonous.
The berries are quite tart and need to be cooked to be eaten. The flowers have a delicate muscat aroma and can be eaten raw or cooked
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Elderberry is one of the most commonly used medicinal plants in the world. It is most often taken as a supplement to treat cold and flu symptoms. However, the raw berries, bark, and leaves are poisonous.
The berries are quite tart and need to be cooked to be eaten. The flowers have a delicate muscat aroma and can be eaten raw or cooked
Elderberries are loaded with antioxidants and vitamins that can help support your immune system.
From syrup to tea to smoothies, there are plenty of ways to enjoy this super fruit.
Fresh Highbush Cranberrries (Viburnum trilobum)
Fresh Highbush Cranberrries (Viburnum trilobum)
Fresh Highbush Cranberrries (Viburnum trilobum)
The Highbush cranberries at Riverstone Farm are a tasty and native american higbush cranberry. The berries are a delicious, tart wild fruit while the stems and branches can be brewed in a tea.
Gather the berries in the fall. You do not need to remove the stems.
if may be easier to just pick the clusters, stem and all off the shrubs.
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The Highbush cranberries at Riverstone Farm are a tasty and native american higbush cranberry. The berries are a delicious, tart wild fruit while the stems and branches can be brewed in a tea.
Gather the berries in the fall. You do not need to remove the stems.
if may be easier to just pick the clusters, stem and all off the shrubs.
Like other Viburnaceae,
You can extract the liquid by juicing. These will need to be cooked with a little water and strained.
U-Pick and Cocktail Sunday
Fresh Highbush Cranberrries (Viburnum trilobum)
U-Pick and Cocktail Sunday
Sunday September 1
From 12 to 5pm UPick
Bring your picnic, pick some berries, visit the food Forest, wade by the river and enjoy an afternoon in the country. We have 2 picnic tables in the food forest. You may like to bring your own folding camp chairs.
N.B Please ensure your dogs or children do not eat the raw elderberry berries, bark or leaves
Camping and Summer Retreat this summer
Welcoming Hipcampers
I am pleased to welcome hipcampers for the third year in a row: families, pets, friends enjoy the peace and quiet in the food forest, the beautiful sunsets, hot chocolate by the fire pit and all this minutes away from all the Eastern Townships has to offer. Charming towns, lakes, golf, cycling, shopping, crafts, hiking, wineries, microbrasseries, pubs and so much more are sure to delight...
3 Day Summer Retreat
Friday July 19 to Sunday July 21, join me for my 3 day Summer Retreat. Workshops in the food forest at picnic tables equipped with umbrellas are the perfect place to do some painting, crafts or learn something new.
Learn about Food Forests
Join the adventure
La foret nourriciere plantée- et quoi maintenant? Food forest planted! what's next?
April 2023
Summer 2023- Year 3
As the snow continues to melt in the food forest, this is a good time to start planning what will be added this summer - Perhaps some medicinal herbs? In the meantime, my dogs are delighted to play and run free.
What is a Food Forest?
The Basics
"Plant a veg garden and feed yourself for a year, plant a food forest and feed yourself for a lifetime" unknown
So what is a food forest?
A food forest is a man made forest of food producing trees, bushes, perennials, vines, root crops and ground cover.
I am starting by planting the canopy and lower trees and bushes in the spring 2021 and then will fill in the gaps with perennials, root crops, vines and ground cover as the season progresses.
The nitrogen fixer bush I have chosen is the Speckled Alder. I have also ordered a few sugar maples that I will plant in the back garden.
The trees I have ordered are from the Hardy Fruit Tree Nursery. They sell cold-hardy fruit trees suited to Canada's northern climate. Fruit trees are grown naturally and have been selected from over four hundred varieties that are testing to offer the very best trees that can be grown in Canada.
I look forward to receiving my order and getting the forest started!
planting- may 2021
Shagbark Hickory - A rare tree tasting like pecan
Hazelbert - A cross between Hazel - Corylus americana - and Filbert - Corylus avellana
Hazelbert - A cross between Hazel - Corylus americana - and Filbert - Corylus avellana
The Shagbark Hickory (Carya ovata) is well known for its use in smoking, but it also produces delightful nuts tasting somewhat like pecans.
Hazelbert - A cross between Hazel - Corylus americana - and Filbert - Corylus avellana
Hazelbert - A cross between Hazel - Corylus americana - and Filbert - Corylus avellana
Hazelbert - A cross between Hazel - Corylus americana - and Filbert - Corylus avellana
The Hazelbert is a bush hardy to zone 3 producing big hazelnuts double the size of our native Beaked Hazel. Always requires 2 for pollination.
Canada plum
Hazelbert - A cross between Hazel - Corylus americana - and Filbert - Corylus avellana
Valton Plum Tree
The best plum pollunator The Canadian plum (Prunus nigra) is native, but it is also the best plum tree to use as a pollinator for hybrid plum
Valton Plum Tree
American Elderberry
Valton Plum Tree
Definitely the most reliable and productive of the trees we have seen. Has one of the longest harvests. Sweet, juicy and fresh flavors. The ideal plum tree.
Highbush Cranberry
American Elderberry
American Elderberry
Highbush cranberry is a medium size deciduous shrub in the same family as elderberry that produces clusters of small red edible berries similar in appearance and taste to cranberries. They are excellent ornamental plants with year round appeal.
American Elderberry
American Elderberry
American Elderberry
Elderberry is native to North America and is gaining in popularity in Canada. It is the only northern fruit that can grow in damp soils. The plant grows very fast and is easy to cultivate.