Handbook - Growing Stawberries Organically - A highlight of COG’s handbooks are success stories from organic growers across Canada. The strawberry growers profiled here share their experiences with tarnished plant bugs, weeder geese, cover crops, marketing and more.

Haskap research bears fruit with organic potential (June 07) - Haskap is poised to hit centre stage as the next exciting offering from the University of Saskatchewan Fruit Breeding Program. This unique fruit shows promise from the growing, harvesting, processing and marketing sides, and it has the potential to be grown organically.

Organic growers prove naysayers wrong (Sept 05) - "I'm sorry, but it is impossible to grow saskatoons organically" I recently heard a saskatoon expert tell an audience of potential fruit growers. If she was right, several organic producers are doing the impossible. Saskatoons grew in abundance across the Prairies before the introduction of agricultural chemicals. They may not be the easiest choice for the organic fruit grower because, being native to the Prairies, they have local pests and diseases.

Organic orchard will play role in the future of agriculture (Aug 05) - The Alberta Organic Producers Association celebrated its 15th anniversary last month at the farm of Victor and Elizabeth Chrapko, near Two Hills, Alta. It was a day filled with celebration - Alberta's centennial, one-third of a century for the Two Hills Agri-culture Society, the opening of Orchard Palace, the first certified organic orchard in Alberta, a visit by the board of OCIA International (a major certification body), a tribute to one of Alberta's organic pioneers, Irene Mihailuk, and the second birthday of the youngest member of the Chrapko organic farm family.