Horticulture
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Horticulture in Saskatchewan
Horticulture is the art and science of cultivating fruits, vegetables, flowers, ornamental plants, herbs and spices, and many other plants used directly by humans.
Horticulture is essential, not only for our continued sustenance, but for our continued well being. Horticulture today incorporates many modern technologies and combines them with techniques that have been in use since antiquity. Horticulture’s practitioners include a wide array of people who garden, farm, manage and use landscapes, and enjoy the fruits of horticultural plants
Saskatchewan’s horticulture industry is thriving with a variety of fruits and vegetables grown in our rich soils or in greenhouses.
Saskatchewan has plenty of clean water and air, which are important factors in growing quality greenhouse crops. Saskatchewan has 165 greenhouse operations with an estimated area of production of approximately 35 acres, employing over 1,500 people.
Horticulture Usage
The Saskatchewan fruit industry is a vibrant component of the provincial economy. Fruit crops are sold directly at farm sites, at local farmer’s markets, as frozen packaged and processed products in retail groceries throughout Western Canada, and into niche export markets. Processed products include jams, jellies, pies, fruit-flavoured ice creams, gelatos, juices, teas, wines, liqueurs, health bars, packaged dried fruit, sugar-infused dried fruit, sauces, and confections. One of the strong-selling features for most of the fruit species grown in the province is that they are classified as “superfruit” because they contain very high levels of health-promoting compounds.
Cabbage, carrots, garlic, and onions can be produced in abundance during Saskatchewan’s warm growing season. Potatoes are additionally a common feature of horticulture here in Saskatchewan as they are a cool-season crop that does well in the prarie’s growing season.