moldova

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 catastrophic careen into capitalism in the mid-1990s), Bortnova has made his backyard home to grapes, kiwis, apricots, cornelian cherries, [...]