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We're calling for articles, NAFEXers. Send them as son as you can, but you've
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> 1. Re: Mulberry commercial potentials
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> 2. Re: Mulberry commercial potentials (Spidra Webster)
> 3. Hawthorns - best varieties (Steven Covacci)
> 4. Re: Hawthorns - best varieties (Matt Demmon)
> 5. Re: Mulberry commercial potentials (mIEKAL aND)
> 6. Re: Mulberry commercial potentials (Spidra Webster)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:33:29 GMT
> From: "Scott Weber and Muffy Barrett" <bluestem_farm@juno.com>
> Subject: Re: [nafex] Mulberry commercial potentials
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> I grew up with mulberries in the back yard, and although I ate loads of
> them I've never considered trying to grow them for market because they were
> always crawling with some sort of tiny insects--springtails, maybe?--and
> Americans are generally way too finicky to tolerate that. I'd think that
> if you had a market any variety that you could harvest efficiently would
> work. Good luck with it.
> Muffy Barrett
>
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------
> , Bass Samaan wrote:
>> Have anyone considered Mulberry as a marketable fruit?
>> What varieties have a potential for the fresh market in the
>> NorthEast?
>>
>>
>>
>> Bass Samaan
>> Zone 6, PA
>> www.Treesofjoy.com
>> bassgarden@gmail.com
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> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 09:39:12 -0800
> From: Spidra Webster <spidra@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [nafex] Mulberry commercial potentials
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> I don't know what the potential is in your region, but my brother started a
> cottage business selling mulberries at the local farmers market. And that
> expanded into selling mulberries to top chefs directly as well.
>
> http://metromulberries.com/
>
> http://www.localharvest.org/metromulberries-M24180
>
> <http://www.localharvest.org/metromulberries-M24180>I know Illinois
> Everbearing is a favorite of his.
>
>
> Megan Lynch
> http://www.meganlynch.net
>
> <http://www.meganlynch.net>South Pasadena, CA
>
> Zone 10a
>
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Bass Samaan <bassgarden@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Growing up in the Mediterranean region, Mulberries were commonly sold by
>> street fruit vendors in season, both the white and the black varieties. The
>> mulberry tree is so adaptable to most regions in the states, especially
>> Morus Alba, but we still don't see this in any super market, or farm
>> markets. Recently one of our local farm market asked me if I would know
>> what is the name of the fruit that their Middle eastern customers refer to
>> as "Tout" (Arabic, and Persian word for Mulberry). They said several
>> customer have been asking for it. Asked if I can sell them fresh fruit in
>> season.
>> I currently grow 3 varieties, Collier, Greece, and Illinois Everbearing.
>> Have anyone considered Mulberry as a marketable fruit?
>> What varieties have a potential for the fresh market in the NorthEast?
>>
>>
>>
>> Bass Samaan
>> Zone 6, PA
>> www.Treesofjoy.com
>> bassgarden@gmail.com
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 13:29:13 -0500 (EST)
> From: Steven Covacci <filtertitle@aol.com>
> Subject: [nafex] Hawthorns - best varieties
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> I'm interested in growing excellent types of hawthorns.
> According to Ken Fern (Plants for a Future), a European species: Crataegus
> schraderana is exceptionally delicious. I don't know of a source for it in
> the US. Any ideas?
> Natives: I have a seed-propgated 'Homestead' (C. x arnoldiana). C.
> arnoldiana (including C. mollisa and C. submollis) are considered some of
> the best; perhaps for size, if not that and flavor. C. flava is supposed
> to be good, along with C. succulenta.
> I'm getting a native Crataegus from NY - from Schlabach's Nursery known as
> 'Heart's Delight', which is supposedly very good.
> Steve NJ
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> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 13:53:34 -0500
> From: Matt Demmon <mdemmon@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [nafex] Hawthorns - best varieties
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> I don't remember the species names, but I noticed that One Green World had
> several different groups of hawthorns for sale this time around, including
> Mayhaw from the S. United States, Azarole from Italy, and a hawthorn from
> China. All claimed to be hardy to z5.
>
> -matt
>
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Steven Covacci <filtertitle@aol.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> I'm interested in growing excellent types of hawthorns.
>> According to Ken Fern (Plants for a Future), a European species: Crataegus
>> schraderana is exceptionally delicious. I don't know of a source for it in
>> the US. Any ideas?
>> Natives: I have a seed-propgated 'Homestead' (C. x arnoldiana). C.
>> arnoldiana (including C. mollisa and C. submollis) are considered some of
>> the best; perhaps for size, if not that and flavor. C. flava is supposed
>> to be good, along with C. succulenta.
>> I'm getting a native Crataegus from NY - from Schlabach's Nursery known as
>> 'Heart's Delight', which is supposedly very good.
>> Steve NJ
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> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 13:51:03 -0600
> From: mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [nafex] Mulberry commercial potentials
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> But how to grow the trees so they are easy to pick? I have a couple
> Russian Mulberries that I pollarded at about 4 feet and that seems
> like it might have potential.
>
> I've planted out about 20 Illinois Everbearing with the hopes of
> making wine, but I'm hesitant to plant more until I know if there is
> an easy way to harvest them and also if the birds will even allow me
> to harvest anything at all.
>
> ~mIEKAL
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Spidra Webster <spidra@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I don't know what the potential is in your region, but my brother started a
>> cottage business selling mulberries at the local farmers market. And that
>> expanded into selling mulberries to top chefs directly as well.
>>
>> http://metromulberries.com/
>>
>> http://www.localharvest.org/metromulberries-M24180
>>
>> <http://www.localharvest.org/metromulberries-M24180>I know Illinois
>> Everbearing is a favorite of his.
>>
>>
>> Megan Lynch
>> http://www.meganlynch.net
>>
>> <http://www.meganlynch.net>South Pasadena, CA
>>
>> Zone 10a
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Bass Samaan <bassgarden@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Growing up in the Mediterranean region, Mulberries were commonly sold by
>>> street fruit vendors in season, both the white and the black varieties.
>>> The
>>> mulberry tree is so adaptable to most regions in the states, especially
>>> Morus Alba, but we still don't see this in any super market, or farm
>>> markets. Recently one of our local farm market asked me if I would know
>>> what is the name of the fruit that their Middle eastern customers refer to
>>> as "Tout" (Arabic, and Persian word for Mulberry). They said several
>>> customer have been asking for it. Asked if I can sell them fresh fruit in
>>> season.
>>> I currently grow 3 varieties, Collier, Greece, and Illinois Everbearing.
>>> Have anyone considered Mulberry as a marketable fruit?
>>> What varieties have a potential for the fresh market in the NorthEast?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Bass Samaan
>>> Zone 6, PA
>>> www.Treesofjoy.com
>>> bassgarden@gmail.com
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> Message: 6
> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 11:55:13 -0800
> From: Spidra Webster <spidra@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [nafex] Mulberry commercial potentials
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> Apparently he grows them as espaliered trees. I don't get along well with
> my brother so I haven't asked him about it all despite the fact that we
> both love growing fruit trees.
>
>
> Megan Lynch
> http://www.meganlynch.net
>
> South Pasadena, CA
> Zone 10a
>
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 11:51 AM, mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> But how to grow the trees so they are easy to pick? I have a couple
>> Russian Mulberries that I pollarded at about 4 feet and that seems
>> like it might have potential.
>>
>> I've planted out about 20 Illinois Everbearing with the hopes of
>> making wine, but I'm hesitant to plant more until I know if there is
>> an easy way to harvest them and also if the birds will even allow me
>> to harvest anything at all.
>>
>> ~mIEKAL
>>
>>
>
>
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> Message: 7
> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 09:45:11 -0500 (EST)
> From: Jwlehman@aol.com
> Subject: [nafex] Mulberry commercial potentials
> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
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> In a message dated 1/11/2013 4:58:43 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> qazingulaza@gmail.com writes:
>
>> I've planted out about 20 Illinois Everbearing with the hopes of making
>> wine, but I'm hesitant to plant more until I know if there is an easy way
>> to
>> harvest them and also if the birds will even allow me to harvest anything
>> at all.
>>
>
> The big problem with Illinois Everbearing is the long ripening period with
> low crop yield at any one time making it difficult to collect large enough
> quantities for processing. The answer has to be a large number of trees.
> For
> one thing large enough to feed all the birds as well as collect fruit.
> Illinois Everbearing is a fantastic fruit. Better than any pure black I've
> ever
> tasted and I've tasted many.
>
> We collect fruits from our Black Mulberry trees by spreading bed sheets
> under the trees then using long poles shake the limbs. Then float out the
> bugs
> and use. There will still be a little protein in the cobbler, but after
> cooking who cares. Mulberry/raspberry cobbler or pie....YUM YUM.
>
> Oh, we don't pick off the stems. Also don't leave the sheets under the tree
> very long as they also collect bird droppings.
>
> Jerry
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