Are you looking for something new to add to your list of healthy, nutritious natural foods? Here’s something you might want to take a look at -- the aronia berry. Garden master Jim Duthie takes us to ...
After being brought to Europe 65 years ago, the popularity of the North American Aronia Berry dropped here at home. Thanks to the efforts of aronia farmer and co-founder of Aronia Juice, Craig ...
AMENIA, N.D. — On a little farm northwest of Fargo, row upon row of bushes sit. Each of these bushes contains 15 to 20 pounds of little berries that boast the highest antioxidant content of any berry ...
Aronia berries (“aronia”), which grow on deciduous shrubs primarily in North America and Eastern Europe, contain a high proportion of micronutrients called polyphenols. Polyphenols are usually organic ...
Mike Trinklein has planted hundreds of trees and plants, only to watch them fail. It’s all in pursuit of permaculture and perennials. Stonecroft Farms, Grafton, isn’t your typical fruit and vegetable ...
FARGO — Did you hear about the guy at the orange juice factory who lost his job? He couldn’t concentrate. Oranges have great health benefits, but there’s a fruit that’s a greater health powerhouse, ...
I love this time of the year in the garden. I’m out almost every day picking peppers, cucumbers, tomatoes, eggplant and herbs to preserve for our winter meals. When we had our late frost last spring, ...
A harvester was working away on a field southeast of Ames Thursday afternoon, far earlier than other farmers in the area. This harvester wasn’t collecting corn or soybeans. It was collecting 20,000 ...
Brent Cox of Boulevard Brewery holds a handful of aronia berries, also known as chokeberries. The company recently partnered with the botanical team at Powell Gardens in Kansas City to produce a ...
Once a year, Dale and Nancy Hilgenkamp’s grandkids get to look like Smurfs. The kids don’t wear costumes to resemble the blue cartoon characters. They just help with the Aronia berry harvest on their ...
Andrew Pittz of the Sawmill Hollow aronia berry farm looks over aronia berry plants in his orchard in Missouri Valley, Iowa, Thursday, April 24, 2014. A few years ago, few people had ever heard of the ...