Edible Blue Honeysuckle (Honeyberry/Haskap) Links


Videos
  • Honeyberry Farm Lakeland Community News Spotlight 2012
  • Honeyberry Farm Northwoods Adventure 2016 and 2019
  • HoneyberryUSA YouTube channel
  • How to Choose and Grow the Haskap Berry That's Right for You and Your Property! 795Haskap Alberta, Canada
  • All about honeyberries 2021 Parkrose Permaculture Portland, OR
  • Little Deb's Berry Farm Practical Farmers of Iowa 2022 Trees Forever 2023
  • Broken Tine Orchard John Deere special
  • Children eating honeyberries in Russia
  • University of Saskatchewan Haskap (Saskatoon Star Phoenix)
  • CBC Television "Haskap Berry Arrives in Nova Scotia"
  • CTV Television "The Little Berry on the Prairie"
  • Mr. Chips Why I Grow Honeyberries Instead of Blueberries
  • Great Escape Nursery "Growing and Harvesting Honeyberries"
  • Rick Larson picking Cinderella, Berry Blue, Borealis
General Information
  • University of Saskatchewan Haskap
  • Gardening U of S article
  • Growing Fruit in Northern Gardens 2018 Sarah Williams and Bob Bors, Google books preview
  • Dr. Bob Bors, University of Saskatchewan -Growing Haskap - Mar202008.pdf
  • Introduction to the Honeyberry HoneyberryUSA presentation 2013
  • The Haskap Enthusiasts Journal - Collection of papers (mostly from U of S)
  • Edible Blue Honeysuckle Gardeners
  • Haskap Canada
  • Horticulture Magazine April 11, 2019
  • Polyculture Project 2023
  • World Flora Online taxonomy & map

Online Seminars
  • Honeyberries Jim Riddle, UW & UMN Extension, Mar 2022
  • Practical Farmers of Iowa Jim & Bernis Ingvaldson, Jan. 2020, Ames, Iowa.
  • Prairie Hardy Fruit Breeding - Cherries & Haskap Dr. Bob Bors, Oct. 16, 2017, HortSnacks-to-Go webinar, Alberta, Canada
  • The Sweet Side of Honeyberries NDSU March 2015
  • Establishing and Maintaining a Haskap Orchard Salmon Arm, BC March 2015

Health Benefits
  • Haskap berries could aid endurance runners Northumbria University 2022
  • Effects on mood, cognition, blood pressure... European Journal of Nutrition 2019
  • National Nutrition Canada report 2015
  • Vitamins and Nutraceutical Compounds haskapalberta.ca
  • healwithfood.org
  • Nutrition listing - CalorieSlism
  • Haskap Nutrition James Dawson U of S 2014
  • Strokes Korean patent
  • Liver Korean patent
  • Garden Therapy in general

Growing
  • Field Trial 2020 Saskatchewan Conservation Learning Centre
  • Effects of Soil pH and Fertilizers on Haskap (Lonicera caerulea L.) Vegetative Growth MDPI Quebec 2019
  • Fertilization Polish video from 3rd International Kamchatka conference 2019 Timac Agro
  • Nutrient Sufficiency Levels for Haskap Canadian Journal of Plant Science Dec. 2018 Agronomic potential of fruit size and yield... Euphytica July 2018 Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution June 2018
  • Fertility Guidlines Ontario 2019
  • Effects of Soil pH and Fertilizers on Haskap (Lonicera caerulea L.) Vegetative Growth Quebec 2019
  • How to take a Soil Sample (UMN)

Harvesting
    Home grower:
  • Hand picking
  • Leaf blower to clean debris out of bucket
  • Shake and Drop into Paddling Pool
    Small scale farmer:
  • $20 Manure Rake and Kiddy Pool Shake-n-Drop
  • Kiddy Pool and a Reciprocating Saw 2020 MSU
  • Olive harvester 2019
  • Waxwing harvester from Indigo Super Tech 2018 at the U of Saskatchewan
  • Chute & Go - to clean debris using a coroplast leaf blower and chute (2018) with funnel addition in 2020.
  • Shake & Rake harvesting and collection 3D 2017
  • Shake & Drop
    *2018 waxwing harvester with jigsaw shaker
    *2017 cleaning chute prototype
  • Jigsaw shaker plans (Engineering in Agriculture Dec. 2011)
    Large scale farmer:
  • Blueberry harvester at Heavenly Blue Haskap in Saskatchewan, Canada (Prairie Farm Report 2012-2016)
  • Joanna harvester at the U of Sask in 2011 and 2015 and in Poland
  • Sorting/cleaning in Poland
  • Side row JAREK 5 JPS, Poland, in N. America contact Rosy farms in Alberta, Canada
  • Over row OSKAR JPS, Poland
  • Over row KOKAN air berry harvester BSK, Serbia videos
    Research
  • Preharvest Fruit Drop Montana State U 2021
  • Applying New Technologies to Transform Blueberry Harvesting Agronomy 2017

Pruning
  • Ontario Specialty Crops 2019
  • UK Here We Grow
  • Grow a Little Fruit Tree Pruning techniques book by Anne Ralph

Blogs
  • HoneyberryUSA (The Honeyberry Farm, Minnesota)
  • HaskapUSA (Tracking Haskap across the USA)
  • Blue Honeysuckle (Saskatchewan)
  • Bee and Thistle Winery (Saskatchewan)
  • Rosy Farms (Alberta)
  • The Haskap Orchard (Manitoba)
  • Insect pollinators of haskap (Lonicera caerulea L.: Caprifoliaceae) in subarctic Canada (Yukon) 2019
  • Alberta Home Gardening
    Special thanks to Dave Trenholm for allowing the use of many of his photos at the beginning stages of this site.
  • Thistleberryorchard (Saskatchewan)


Groups/Forums
  • Growing Fruit - General
  • Growing Fruit - Cultivar evaluation Earlies
  • Growing Fruit - Cultivar evaluation Lates
    Facebook Groups:
  • Home Growers
  • Professional Haskap Growers
  • Haskap Growers 300+ Bushes


Honeyberry U-Pick Orchards in the USA
  • Honeyberry Farm Bagley, MN
  • The Berry Patch Nevada, IA
  • Little Deb's Berry Farm Newhall, IA
  • Lyman Orchards Middlefield, CT
  • Common Ground Alaska Big Lake, AK
  • Blue Fruit Farm Winona, MN
  • Blue Berry Farm Elkland, MO
  • Honeyberry Adventures Lima, MT
  • Aspen Grove Farm Corvallis, MT
  • Deep Blue Farm Shermans Dale, PA
  • Ghost Creek Acres Athens, WI
  • Dee's Nutz & Berries Brodhead, WI
  • Schoen Valley Orchard River Falls, WI


Orchards Overseas
(use Google Translate)
    Poland
  • In-Vitro Poland 2022 report
  • Biohaskap 2020 Polish Superfruits
  • Kamczack Berry
  • Wężyki Harvest with Joanna harvester 2019
  • Fabric weed control
  • in-vitro.pl Orchard blog - note shake'N'drop harvesting
  • Jagodnik.pl - 2018 harvest report
  • JAGODNIKHORTUSMEDIA 2017
  • Anna Litwin 2017
  • Polish update 2017
  • polish-berry-cooperative 2017
    Norway
  • Druer.org
  • Haskap Facebook Group
    Other European
  • haskap.club - zone 7b
  • Balkan Ecology Project, Bulgaria
    Japan
  • Haskap Cycle Tour
  • Mori Moto advertisement

Honeyberry/Haskap Field Research & Demonstrations
  • Saskatchewan U of S Fruit Program
  • Saskatchewan Conservation Learning Centre videos: 2020 2022, Fact sheets & Progress Reports
  • British Columbia
  • Kentucky 2018 Report & Slides with pics
  • Farm at the Arboretum Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, Chaska, MN
  • Montana State * Fruit Guides * Video 2021
  • North Dakota Fruit Evaluation Project
  • Wisconsin - Madison
  • Northern New York Agricultural Development Program
  • Pensylvania A new kind of wine 2017
  • Manitoba Food Development Center Research 2011
  • Alaska Growing Degree Days


Honeyberry/Haskap Products
  • Kirkaberry Farms, BC Freeze dried products, juice, & more
  • St. Fiacres Tea, Willamette Valley, OR
  • Saskmade, Saskatoon, SK
  • Icecube Enterprises tincture, Remer, MN
  • Tongue River Winery, Miles City, MT (online store)
  • Bemidji Brewing, Bemidji, MN (Honeyberry Sour beer, no online sales) ratebeer.com review
  • Forager Brewery, Rochester, MN (Hidden Treasures Saison beer, no online sales)
  • Stone Barn Brandy Portland, OR
  • Nutracevit Poland
  • TPK Sava Altai region of northern Russia


Honeyberry/Haskap in the News (Magazines/Podcasts etc)
  • 2024 The No-Till Growers Podcast Network Podcast chat with HoneyberryUSA
  • 2022 Bevnet Elevator Talk
  • 2020 Country Guide Canada
  • 2019 John Deer Furrow magazine article
  • 2019 Stevenson Award for U of S cherries & haskap
  • 2018 117 – Haskap Berries; A Lifetime in Plant Breeding talkingbiotechpodcast
  • 2017-12-06 Fresh Plaza Kapu and Tana
  • Haskaps, mysterious new Alaskan fruit


Additional Honeyberry Links
  • Additional Links
  • Pick Your Own Great resource for finding and processing locally grown.
  • PSU Wine & Grapes review


    Scientific papers
  • Variation of Fruits Morphometric Parameters and Iridoid Content of Lonicera caerulea L. Germplasm Collection November 2022
  • Recent Studies on Berry Bioactives and Their Health-Promoting Roles Molecules 2022
  • Anthocyanins and antioxidant activity of Lonicera caerulea berry wine during different processes Food Sci. Technol (Campinas) 03 Sept 2021
  • Evaluation of Lonicera caerulea L. genotypes based on morphological characteristics of fruits germplasm collection May 2021
  • Effect of Lonicera caerulea var. emphyllocalyx Extracts on Murine Streptococcus pyogenes Infection by Modulating Immune System 2019
  • Effects of Lonicera caerulea extract on adipocyte differentiation and adipogenesis in 3T3-L1 cells and mouse adipose-derived stem cells (MADSCs koreamed (obesity) 2019
  • Simultaneous optimization of the acidified water extraction for total anthocyanin content, total phenolic content, and antioxidant activity of blue honeysuckle berries (Lonicera caerulea L.) using response surface methodology Wiley 2019
  • Methanol extract of Lonicera caerulea var. emphyllocalyx fruit has antibacterial and anti-biofilm activity against Streptococcus pyogenes in vitro Bioscience trends · April 2019
  • A pilot dose–response study of the acute effects... European Journal of Nutrition Dec. 2018
  • Impact of Thermal Degradation MDPI 2018
  • Modulation of Gut Microbiota Molecules 12/5/2018
  • Inhibitory effect of blue honeysuckle extract on high-fat-diet-induced fatty liver... Animal Nutrition Sept. 2018
  • Anti-tumor properties of anthocyanins from Lonicera caerulea 'Beilei' fruit on human hepatocellular carcinoma: In vitro and in vivo study Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy 104:520-529 · May 2018
  • CHEMOPREVENTIVE EFFECT OF HASKAP BERRY POLYPHENOLS AGAINST TOBACCO SPECIFIC NITROSAMINE-INDUCED DNA DAMAGE IN NORMAL LUNG EPITHELIAL CELLS IN VITRO 2017
  • Isolation of three cyanins from Lonicera caerulea L. fruits and its anticancer activity 2017
  • Anti-cancer evaluation of various solvent extracts of blue honeysuckle berry (Lonicera caerulea L.) against prostate cancer cells 2017
  • Antioxidant Activity of Yichun Blue Honeysuckle (YBHS) Berry Counteracts CCl4-Induced Toxicity in Liver Injury Model of Mice Antioxidants (Basel) 2017
  • Plant Polyphenols as Chemopreventive Agents for Lung Cancer MDPI (not haskap specific), 2016
  • Anti-Inflammatory Activity of Haskap Cultivars is Polyphenols-Dependent MDPI 2015
  • RW-Drying-of-Haskap-Berry---Preliminary-Results-on-Anthocyanin-Retention (2015)
  • Therapeutic Effects of Various Solvent Extracts of Blue Honeysuckle Berry (Lonicera caerulea L.) Against Prostate Cancer Cells Berry Health Symposium 2015 Berry Health.org
  • Haskap Berries (Lonicera caerulea L.)—a Critical Review of Antioxidant Capacity and Health-Related Studies for Potential Value-Added Products 2014
  • Post Harvest Ripening Advances in Horticultural Science Aug 2014
  • Nutritional Study Nova Scotia Agricultural College (2012)
  • Phenolic Profile of Edible Honeysuckle Berries Molecules 2012
  • SOURCE OF BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE COMPOUNDS: Palacky University, Czech Republic, 2007

    Invasiveness research
    • Yew Dell 2020
    • NWACReasearchNeeds 2019 Minnesota
    • ACTAHORT 2018
    • ASHS Hort Science 2018


    Grant Projects
  • Minnesota - 2021 on farm yield, pollination and labor requirements
  • AGRI MN 2020 - Weed control
  • Practical Farmers of Iowa
  • U of S ADF Grant Followup 2012
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