b'????????????????Looking Towards the FutureIts a brave new world out there, and two Albertans are poised to do very exciting things which could have a big impact on the world of science and food.THIS DUO IS taking the world of food to new heightsBerry Bright Futureby thinking big and taking the path less travelled.The Alberta Seed Guide keeps an eye on people within our industry who are worth watching Hungry deer, voracious bugs and a funny-shaped people making a difference in their field to the pointberry led Andrew Rosychuk to start his own business where they help to move the needle and take ourand look at value-added in a new way.province in a new direction toward a brighter and more profitable future.Andrew Rosychuk and Dawn Trautman are twoFOR ALBERTAS first commercial haskap grower, Andrew Rosychuk of the latest Nuffield scholars. The Nuffield Canadacomes from an unlikely background.Scholarship is a rural leadership program availableHes a city boy who always wanted to be a farmer. His dad grew up on a to anyone mid-career who is involved in agriculturefarm but left it to become a lifelong civil servant for the City of Edmonton. in any capacity of primary production, industry orHe got off the farm because he didnt want that lifestyle. This is a governance. Each year scholarships are awarded tobusiness fraught with risk. It felt strange getting into something he never individuals who are expected to assume positions ofreally intended for me, says Rosychuk, the 34-year-old owner of the greater influence in their field in the future. Alcomdale-based Rosy Farms, the provinces first commercial haskap Both of these influencers have one thing inoperation. commontheyre thinking of their industry in newIn 2005, while taking the production horticulture diploma program at ways to create new markets and create Agriculture 2.0. Olds College, Rosychuk started growing haskap200 plants.We work to cultivate young talent who really standHe continued experimenting by planting sour cherries and currants as out in their field as people who want to create a betterwell. The deer loved the sour cherries, bugs loved the currants, and he future for everyone, says Leona Watson, executivefell in love with the haskap, a blue oblong berry whose flavour is often director of Nuffield Canada. described as a cross between blueberries and raspberries. We caught up with these two difference-makersHe wanted to make a full business out of it, but he quickly realized who are all having an impact on the seed world andstarting a haskap orchard was going to take more than an education and proving that thinking in new ways is the only way toa dream.create positive change through innovation. He landed a job up in Fort McMurray and achieved his Canadian Red Seal welding and boilermaker trades tickets, which helped to finance the development of Rosy Farms, a 76-acre haskap orchard.All of my life experiences have culminated together in this love and passion for horticulture. Constructed from nothing, this is a haskap farm that I believe will change the fruit industry in Canada, says the city slicker-turned-farmer.Rosychuk is the founder of the Haskap Alberta Association and a co-founder of North 49 Fruit Corporation, a producer-owned marketing corporation bringing Canadian-grown fruit and processed fruit products to the global marketplace. Its a new model which Rosychuk believes will help Alberta fruit growers avoid the mistakes of the past.For more information on the Nuffield program andWeve created a new company to bring stability to a brand-new a full list of scholarship recipients visit nuffield.camarketplace. Its a volatile industry, he says, referring to early efforts to market the Saskatoon berry which ultimately didnt work. People were told to grow all this fruit but there was no market. They 52seed.ab.ca'