SAINT-EUSTACHE, QUE. — Thick, humid air envelopes Myriam Claude’s banana tree, which bears a beautiful cluster of fruit, not yet ripe. Beside it are several trees blossoming with flowers, citrus fruit, and tiny pomegranates waiting to explode with flavour. But Claude’s bounty isn’t in the tropics. It’s in an 8,750-square-foot greenhouse northwest of Montreal, in […]
A Quebec company plans to grow bananas and other exotic fruits in a greenhouse northwest of Montreal, aiming to produce 75,000 to 110,000 bananas per harvest, along with fruits like lemons, limes, oranges, tangerines, papayas, and pomegranates. They differentiate their bananas by selling them locally without preservatives and are experimenting with diverse fruit varieties.
