aronia harvest almost complete
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Topic: aronia harvest almost complete
Posted By: shameless dude
Subject: aronia harvest almost complete
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2018 at 9:53pm
| worked on it last weekend, should finish by this weekend. how are other members berries doing? |
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Posted By: baverwolf
Date 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 |
Posted By: desertjoe
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2018 at 3:10am
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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 By: Randy WI
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2018 at 6:14am
| I think they are the same . Randy |
Posted By: Randy WI
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2018 at 6:23am
| We will be harvesting soon ifen the deer don't get em first, Randy |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2018 at 6:49am
| choke berries, not choke cherries |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2018 at 6:49am
| mine are smaller this year |
Posted By: baverwolf
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2018 at 8:12am
Ok. So I'm assuming there is no pit in them like a chokecherry where the aronia is a berry? Ben |
shameless dude wrote:Posted By: Randy WI
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2018 at 10:19am
| our berries are normal size I went and tasted a few and they could be picked we like them almost over ripe . Randy |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2018 at 10:57pm
| 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. |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2018 at 10:57pm
| 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?? |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2018 at 11:12pm
| 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! |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2018 at 11:14pm
| 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. |
Posted By: Les Royer
Date Posted: 17 Aug 2018 at 6:42am
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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! ------------- I still gots my A/C but it's clear out in the barn now. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 17 Aug 2018 at 8:46am
| take them to the farmers market! |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 17 Aug 2018 at 8:47am
| or donate some to the food bank? |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 17 Aug 2018 at 8:54am
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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 ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: desertjoe
Date Posted: 17 Aug 2018 at 9:02am
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UMMmmmm,,,Les,,will they "Wait" for a couple of months,,,,????
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Posted By: Les Royer
Date Posted: 17 Aug 2018 at 11:15am
Never been to a farmers market. Whadda do jest show up with berries an a sign? ------------- I still gots my A/C but it's clear out in the barn now. |
Posted By: Les Royer
Date Posted: 17 Aug 2018 at 11:18am
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Jay, that would take sum postcard! Joe I can freeze sum for ya. ------------- I still gots my A/C but it's clear out in the barn now. |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 17 Aug 2018 at 1:44pm
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. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 17 Aug 2018 at 8:30pm
| 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! |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 17 Aug 2018 at 8:36pm
| we should all go to his customer appreciation and suck up all his free stuff! |
Posted By: KJCHRIS
Date Posted: 17 Aug 2018 at 10:01pm
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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. ------------- AC 200, CAH, AC185D bareback, AC 180D bareback, D17 III, WF. D17 Blackbar grill, NF. D15 SFW. Case 1175 CAH, Bobcat 543B, |
Posted By: desertjoe
Date Posted: 18 Aug 2018 at 4:55am
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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 By: Ted J
Date 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!! ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 18 Aug 2018 at 1:05pm
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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 By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 18 Aug 2018 at 1:14pm
| my harvest is complete, all hand picked by me and the old lady....ooooops….I mean the loving wife! |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 18 Aug 2018 at 1:14pm
| I may hafta gits sum more from ole Les |
Posted By: Les Royer
Date Posted: 19 Aug 2018 at 12:24pm
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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. ------------- I still gots my A/C but it's clear out in the barn now. |
Posted By: Les Royer
Date Posted: 19 Aug 2018 at 12:43pm
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I seen them there berries fer sale in the store fer $11 per pound. Back when I did get paid, I got $1.14 Who gets the other 10 bucks? Come on out Shameless. Jest as well hep me gits Joe's share of em picked too. How many bushel baskets did he want again? An we gotta gits those taped to a post card headed to Canada fer ole Jay too before it freezes up thar.
------------- I still gots my A/C but it's clear out in the barn now. |
Posted By: desertjoe
Date Posted: 19 Aug 2018 at 7:22pm
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Gosh,,Les,,I feel for Ya,,Guy,,,Is thet guy that took the Aronias some kin to you or something,,,?? I believe I would go talk to him and demand payment for both years or tell him you gonna go see the judge,,,more better try to find other farmers that he did same thing to and get a group together. No doubt, he's already sold all of them and just flat "forgot" to pay everybody,,??
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Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 19 Aug 2018 at 10:00pm
| I e-mailed that place Les...no response, their web site says they is gonna throws a party, we need to go and..... |
Posted By: desertjoe
Date Posted: 19 Aug 2018 at 10:37pm
UMMMMMmmmmm,,,you want I should send you some of these special goat heads,,,???
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Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 20 Aug 2018 at 10:58am
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Git yer butt in gear and DEMAND payment in full NOW! I don't know what kind of contract you've got, but I hope it's got clauses in it to CYA!! ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 22 Aug 2018 at 1:48am
| I agree with Ted, maybe a bunch of ya'll should file suit against him for non payment! i'm sure a lot of the berries he has stored where ever (frozen storage) has eaten up any profits or payments to his growers. but that's not the growers fault! shucks...ya'll might become owners of a farm with that fancy club house and steel building on it! he still hasn't responded to my e-mail yet! |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 22 Aug 2018 at 10:50am
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Shameless I thought you better knew how this country works.The kind of action you are proposing is just part of the full employment act of blood suckers put together by blood suckers are us. Dirty rotten politicians
all seem to only make laws that help snakes slip under the rock so they can come back another day. |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 22 Aug 2018 at 9:16pm
| To participate at a farmers market, you show up with your product and $5.00 entry fee. Bring a table, chair, and big ol floppy hat or some type of shun shade. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 23 Aug 2018 at 2:13am
| Omaha NE's farmers market charges $585.00 (plus $40.00 for each electric outlet if needed) for the season, for a 10x10 ft booth. and if you aren't on location by a certain time, your booth is rented out to someone else. and you can't have your vehicle close to you. and there's 4 pages of rules and regs you hafta follow. best to just stay outta Omaha, and go to the smaller towns. most of them don't charge a vendors fee, you sell out of your vehicle ina parking lot. |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 23 Aug 2018 at 7:45pm
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Sounds like the Omaha'ins visited Calify to find out how to do it. Part of the rules here would be good if your growing for that market in they make sure you grew it and are not buying it wholesale and reselling it.
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Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 23 Aug 2018 at 11:24pm
| we have a lot of them kind around here now Ray. a lot of road side stands are selling stuff from other states. |