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How to grow currants – these healthy and easy-to-grow fruits thrive in cooler climates and are perfect for jams, jellies, and baking

I have grown, maintained, and harvested blackcurrant, redcurrant, and whitecurrant bushes in walled kitchen gardens and on my home plots for many years. I always found them simple to grow, easy to ...
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Currant Affairs

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. After dinner one night this summer, I served currants as a garnish on dessert. The pink, round, ...
Seattle Times

Tart currants’ fanbase is growing along with their versatility and availability

FOR DECADES, THEY were literally a forbidden fruit. Fresh currants are a popular crop in Europe and grow reasonably well in Washington state. But the tart, translucent strings of berries — “little ...