Northern Vigor Berries Inc.
Phone: (306)955-2319
Email: betty@
Address:
1822 Kenderdine RoadSaskatoon, SK S7N 4K3Get Directions
Website: www.nvigorate.ca
Categories: Business Collaboration
About the Business
“Promoting healthy lifestyles with the best of nature”
With passion, belief, enthusiasm, dedication and not being afraid to venture out into the unknown, our family planted our first seabuckthorn orchard in 1998.
Our organic seabuckthorn berries and leaves now reach wholesale markets in not only the food industry, but the nutraceutical, cosmeceutical and pet industries.
Seabuckthorn has 190 bioactives including Vitamin C, E, K, beta carotene, unsaturated fatty acids, essential amino acids and flavonoids. Sought after for it’s omega 7, it also has omegas 3, 6 and 9; there are 28 trace elements including magnesium, calcium and zinc. The leaves have up to 18x the antioxidant level of green tea.
These are organically certified products available under our brand name nvigorate: berries, tea leaves, freeze-dried ground berries, vinegar, spread, syrup, puree, Smoothie Pops, as well as a (to die for!) Seabuckthorn Gelato, Seabuckthorn Sorbet, chocolates and seabuckthorn seeds.
Betty Forbes
Betty loves learning and after receiving her Bachelor of Education from the University of Saskatchewan with a major in Mathematics and minor in Economics she continued studies in education, health, aspects of medicine and business. Betty’s experience is broad and encompasses teaching, course development, sales, marketing, writing, training and management. Upon leaving the teaching profession, Betty incorporated Northern Vigor Berries and has served as CEO and President since 2007. She has been instrumental in raising awareness of seabuckthorn as well as in developing innovative seabuckthorn products for the marketplace. She has served on fruit and processor boards and now serves on the Herb, Spice and Specialty Ag board. Betty has been supportive of seabuckthorn growers in the prairie provinces by providing workshops and training. Through meetings and conferences, she remains connected with the international seabuckthorn community of growers, scientists and entrepreneurs.