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Taking Advantage of the Rain!

Most of the weekend we’ve been drenched in central Iowa.  A washed out Labor Day weekend.  So what do we do?  Bake!   I wish you could smell our house about now.

Folks are always asking me what we do with “those” berries.  We get creative.   We use them in chocolate chip cookies, apple pie, fudge, pancakes, beef stew, chili, meatballs and meatloaf, salads, pancakes, lemonade, muffins, banana bread, you name it, I try it.  The recipe page includes some of our favorites.  It includes the new one that’s in the oven.

The house smells amazing and it tastes just as good!

Pear Aronia Granola

 

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Blooms, Blooms, Beautiful Blooms

Oh I wish you could smell these!

Or walk through the aisles and just listen to the birds chirp and the bees hum as they flit from place to place enjoying all the blossoms.

Watching that big, mean Rottweiler stop and smell the flowers is a real treat too.  Although, I couldn’t get a really good picture of him this year!  It’s just too funny watching him stop and sniff.  

Right now when they are so pretty you can overlook all the grass that is trying to grow under the plants and just enjoy the beautiful miracle that is happening turning those tiny little plants we planted 10 years ago into the beautiful floral beauties and then  a super nutritional berry right before our eyes.   Isn’t the power of nature magical!

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Beautiful No Matter the Season

I always forget to take pictures out in the Aronia berry fields during the winter months.  It doesn’t seem possible this was just on Monday as we were going out for a walk and to do some sledding.  We knew the snow wouldn’t last, but the fields are beautiful, no matter what season.

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Excited and Maybe Crazy?

Woody and I have made a commitment to be a part of the 2015 Warren County Farm Tour.  We are excited, a little anxious about the preparation and timing though.  We finish co-chairing the Midwest Aronia Association’s Iowa State Fair booth in the Ag Building on the 23rd of August and will host the Farm Tour on August 30.  Sometime around there we will be harvesting as well.  Crazy?  Maybe, but we feel strongly folks need to know about the benefits of the Aronia berry.  There is all kinds of research being done on how to use these very-high antioxidant berries.  The article below explains a little bit about the excitement.

Aronia (aka Chokeberries) – the Next Super food for Athletes?