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shameless dude 
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Posted: 14 Aug 2018 at 9:53pm |
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worked on it last weekend, should finish by this weekend. how are other members berries doing?
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baverwolf
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Posted: 14 Aug 2018 at 11:03pm |
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Are arionia berries the same as chokecherries? I googled ariona for a picture and the picture I found looked like chokecherries.
Just curious is all.
Ben
Edited by baverwolf - 14 Aug 2018 at 11:06pm
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Posted: 15 Aug 2018 at 3:10am |
What,,,are you farmin Aronia's too,,,?? I haven't received my yearly allotment from ole Les yet,,but,,,but,,,I ain't losin hope,,,!!! Say,,,!!! are you gonna have any Aronia's left by the time I get up there,,??? UMmmm,,,how many grocery bags do I gotta take with me,,,???
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Posted: 15 Aug 2018 at 6:14am |
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I think they are the same . Randy
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Posted: 15 Aug 2018 at 6:23am |
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We will be harvesting soon ifen the deer don't get em first, Randy
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Posted: 15 Aug 2018 at 6:49am |
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choke berries, not choke cherries
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Posted: 15 Aug 2018 at 6:49am |
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mine are smaller this year
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Posted: 15 Aug 2018 at 8:12am |
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choke berries, not choke cherries |
Ok. So I'm assuming there is no pit in them like a chokecherry where the aronia is a berry? Ben
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Posted: 15 Aug 2018 at 10:19am |
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our berries are normal size I went and tasted a few and they could be picked we like them almost over ripe . Randy
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Posted: 15 Aug 2018 at 10:57pm |
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I got several bushes out in the yard, but I don't think they are aronia Berry's. Grand son planted them. They make good bird food. I'm also wondering what they taste like.
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Posted: 15 Aug 2018 at 10:57pm |
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I got several bushes out in the yard, but I don't think they are aronia Berry's. Grand son planted them. They make good bird food. I'm also wondering what they taste like. Do they make good wine??
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Posted: 15 Aug 2018 at 11:12pm |
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there isn't any pits in them Wolf...they are kinda like blue berries but have a sweet sour taste to them. I like eating them raw, and for ole Les, i'm gonna makes him an aronia crisp!
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Posted: 15 Aug 2018 at 11:14pm |
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Tom...they make very GOOD wine! you can try some wine in IA, it's sold in your state in several places. I think the last we bought was in your town when we was there last year.
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Posted: 17 Aug 2018 at 6:42am |
I haven't checked the sugar content yet but tasted a few. Yeah, mine are small to, Shameless. Mine don't taste like they're ready, but I'll check em today. That guy in the valley ain't takin em this year Shameless, so I reckon all 4,000 lbs will jest go to fertilizer.
So if'n any of you fellas want sum fer free come hep yerself!
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I still gots my A/C but it's clear out in the barn now.
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Posted: 17 Aug 2018 at 8:46am |
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take them to the farmers market!
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Posted: 17 Aug 2018 at 8:47am |
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or donate some to the food bank?
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Posted: 17 Aug 2018 at 8:54am |
HAy Les, jes mail them 4000# of berries to me, that'd keep the wife busy in the kitchen for awhile !! aronia crisp sure sounds nice.... Jay
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Posted: 17 Aug 2018 at 9:02am |
UMMmmmm,,,Les,,will they "Wait" for a couple of months,,,,???? 
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Posted: 17 Aug 2018 at 11:15am |
shameless dude wrote:
take them to the farmers market! |
Never been to a farmers market. Whadda do jest show up with berries an a sign?
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I still gots my A/C but it's clear out in the barn now.
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Posted: 17 Aug 2018 at 11:18am |
Jay, that would take sum postcard!
Joe I can freeze sum for ya.
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I still gots my A/C but it's clear out in the barn now.
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Posted: 17 Aug 2018 at 1:44pm |
Les Royer wrote:
shameless dude wrote:
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Never been to a farmers market. Whadda do jest show up with berries an a sign?
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Everything is different in different places so I don't know at your place,but here all kind of rules. But Oh Shameless could probably get away breaking all of them,an still not be in trouble. But you just put a sign out the end of your driveway,not much in the way of rules.As long as you grow it on the place.
An to keep the cheap folks from just window shopping, put "All Natural" on the sign as that is no regulated like "organic" and a twice  the normal price. But maybe there ant no "  Foodies " in Iowa and just the cheap folk .Then I guess you just gotta give them to Jay  an Joe .
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Posted: 17 Aug 2018 at 8:30pm |
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don't take to Omaha's farmer market, the city charges big money for a booth. I don't think there are charges anywhere else for space to sell them, Ray has a good idea, try selling them from your place! i'm sitting here eating some with ice cream right now! I should finish my harvest tomorrow. I didn't wear gloves so you know what my hands look like! LOL the old lady....oooops….I mean the loving wife picked raspberries tonight, they are on the light side too. Les...what does that contract say with that ya-woo over there? that you can only sell to him? but don't he hafta buy from you too? I always thought he was a shyster!
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Posted: 17 Aug 2018 at 8:36pm |
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we should all go to his customer appreciation and suck up all his free stuff!
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Posted: 17 Aug 2018 at 10:01pm |
Hey Shameless and Les; Some guy from Omaha, Ne. has an Aronia picker for sale on Craigslist @ $30,000. Does 1 side of the bushes at a time. Looks like person has to ride on rear of it and fill containers. Are they ripe when the turn Black? Have neighbor that put in a couple acres of some kind of berry bushes 5 years ago, about 4 - 5' tall now. Nobody picks any last 2 years and none this year, were bright red now most look black. Guy from town mows between the rows n weed-eats up close.
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Posted: 18 Aug 2018 at 4:55am |
The "Health benefit" of the Aronia Berries has been known for some time, although not very well publicised,,which is some confusing to me as I would think the FDA would push for more distribution just mainly for the high content of the polyphenols in the berries. When ole Les and Shameless first started talkin bout em,,I did some readin up on them and they are one of the highest polyphenol containing foods you can eat.
I would think it be to ole Les's advantage to get an ad in the local paper to sell em at a roadside stand at his house,,,or maybe con a young enterprising young person to man the stand (ryhms too) on a percentage basis.,,,,??
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Posted: 18 Aug 2018 at 8:01am |
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LES!!!! You should get the nurse to start making Aronia Jam!! She'd be done by Feb or March next year,,,,,,,that would keep her off the couch for a while!
AND then you could SELL them next year at Hutch when you get there!! Heck,,,,,,,,,I'd take a half dozen myself!! GOOD STUFF!!
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Posted: 18 Aug 2018 at 1:05pm |
Joe you be carefull how much you bragging up of the healthfulness of Les's berries.
My "favarite  niehgbor" Mrs Stewy Resnick  got started bragging her pomegranate juice would cure all your ills. Even though they be billionares the Food and Drug people had a little talk with her and her Wonderful Company.If you google around you find her crowing that she won the case cause the Court finally gave up on having to approve her addvertizing before it could be used. But now they just hint at how good you will feel. Even though hubby be a blood sucking lawyer I got a hunch legal bill was more than O'l Les has got or could even beg and barrow.
Being hillbilly redneck you got to learn what buzz words mean things,like that other blood sucker that got hung up with IS(are favorite Bill).Things like "Organic" is a very regulated term, Natural ant.
Anybody know how to kick the spell check so it always works ?Mine works part time.So I am sorrry for things like this.
An I did get myself worked up over the billion dollar outfit that does owns around me,if you would steer clear of Wonderful nuts and juices,Justin wine,and Fiji water it would make me smile.
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Posted: 18 Aug 2018 at 1:14pm |
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my harvest is complete, all hand picked by me and the old lady....ooooops….I mean the loving wife!
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Posted: 18 Aug 2018 at 1:14pm |
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I may hafta gits sum more from ole Les
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Posted: 19 Aug 2018 at 12:24pm |
well between the never ending breakdown of equipment amd the state people fer pulling my organic certification for using 3 tablespoons of a product that says organic right on the label but it ain't, I've lost me will to do anything with those berries.
Heil, I never got paid fer last years crop, or the year before that I don't think. It might be the healthiest thing on the planet, but if'n it don't keep the lights on, it aint worth much.
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