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Expanding our Reach!

Exciting News!!!  We are welcoming shoppers from the beautiful, new Fareway on Fleur Drive in Des Moines to our family!   The Fleur shoppers join those Fareway customers in Carlisle, Indianola, Norwalk who have access to our frozen Aronia berries all year.   We also provide berries to Brick Street Market in Bondurant, Gateway Market downtown, and to the Price Choppers on Ingersoll, Beaver, Merle Hay and in Johnston.

We’re also hoping Gateway Market shoppers see a little purple when dining or purchasing baked items.  The folks there will be experimenting with Aronia berries.  Their excellent foods, creativity and focus on health make us a natural fit.

So if you’re looking for ways to use Aronia, check out the Recipes pages or try experimenting and using berries in your favorite smoothies, soups, fresh salads, or when recipes call for cranberries or raisins.  Those are all pretty safe ways to get started introducing Aronia into your recipes.

Why choose Aronia?  It’s your locally grown super food!  

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It’s a War Zone!

Saturday was a warm, almost Spring day in Central Iowa.  So what did we do?  Head out to the fields!

Last year our very first Aronia field yielded very little fruit.  It was originally planted almost 10 years ago.  Woody decided it was time for a pruning.  You see, Aronia Melanocarpa is native to the area and is very hardy perennial shrub.   Our son, Kendall, cut back the nearly 200 bushes from over 6′ to about 6-10″ inches.   We expect them to send up straight new shoots this spring.  They won’t have fruit, but they will be preparing for another several years of production.

Now we just have to clean up all those branches we cut off and raked to the aisles.  Meanwhile, it looks kind of like a war zone!

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It’s a Great time for Anti-Viral Aronia!

If you’ve heard the news lately, you know we’re smack dab in flu season.  My seven year old granddaughter had eleven children in her class on Friday!   We heard 83 were absent from the local middle school.

Knock on wood, our family has been spared.  I like to think it has something to do with the little purple fruit I sneak in on them regularly.  Aronia juice, Aronia jam, Aronia cookies, Aronia smoothies, Aronia in the soup, whatever it takes to get those healthy little purple berries into our bodies.

Purple Smoothie Sisters!

If you’re in central Iowa, be sure to get your Aronia frozen berries at Fareway, Gateway Market, Brick Street Market, or Price Choppers!

Fogle’s Organic Aronia Berries in the Freezer Section
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Making a Switch and Stepping Up!

My brain is fried!  I have been doing some of this blogging stuff for quite a while and it always blows me away every time I make changes or begin something new.    But as I think back, I’ve got itwhipped.  After all for someone who began typing on a manual typewriter, transitioned to an electric, made copies with carbon paper and onion skins, was thrilled typewriters had a correction key, saw the advent of CPTs where you could preview what you typed on the screen and put it on a huge floppy disk to make changes before printing, marveled at the ease of a fax machine,  was fascinated with a flash drive, learned to use a desktop, laptop, tablet and smartphone, couldn’t believe I could make friends online and talk to them for free in Australia and England via Skype, hey, I got this!

As my husband so aptly says at the tender age of 81, “If you don’t learn and change, you die.”  He’s currently Googling things and talking to me over my shoulder while I import and export from one blog to another.  Ah the marvels of technology that have taken over our lives.

So as we begin a new phase of blogging and educating about the wonderful health benefits about Aronia Berries, bear with me as I get frustrated, make things way too hard, or just get tired:)

So as fried as my brain is, I had to share one final thing…if a service duck can go shopping in the mall during the Christmas season.  I can surely waddle through this!