The saskatoons are great this year, an event that happens only about once every five years They don’t do well in dry years, but their biggest enemy, since they bloom in mid-May, is frost.
Saskatchewan’s biggest city is named after then little berry (a concept foreign to the Facebook dictionary since it wanted me to change saskatoon to Saskatoon!)
I love the saskatoon pies that Bev makes. So do others. About 20 years ago, she submitted one to a church auction and it sold for $50!
Speaking of the commercialization of saskatoons. The cultivated saskatoon industry received a real boost in 1986. That was the year that Vancouver hosted Expo ’86 and the Saskatchewan pavilion was a real hit!. The “Restaurant at the Saskatchewan Pavilion” served beef and turkey suppers, topped off with saskatoon pie.
(First Posted on Facebook in 2016)