Alex Oberg is not the first person to grow a pineapple in the North, but he may well be the most dedicated. "Eventually we thought, 'well this thing should at some point be growing a pineapple for us, right?'" Then, last fall, it appeared — a little miniature pineapple, sprouting from the leaves. He calls Oberg's pineapple, grown over nine years in the North, "a nice surprise." "If you can put up with a kind of an unpleasant house plant for a few years, then it's definitely worth it," he said.

Source: CBC News April 06, 2026 10:23 UTC