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AM.MN: You too could be munching a homegrown Arctic kiwi

By Chris Steller | 06.05.09 | 8:30 am

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Minnesota, land of 10,000 … quinces? That’s the dream of Alexandru Bortnova, a former heart surgeon from Moldova who grows non-native fruits in Shoreview and Litchfield. Himself a transplant (his family won a green-card lottery to escape Moldova’s…