Where to buy Aronia berry?

Why didn't somebody tell me about aronia berry bushes? Yes, you can grow blueberries in Nebraska: these are my bushes. Raspberries grow like weeds, for pete's sake.

Elderberries grow like weeds, for example, though they are prone to winterkill. Oh, no. Just click over here to my how-to-grow-blueberries and check out the instructions. I have a small blueberry patch, and I do get blueberries from it every summer.

You know that I put a definite crack in that puzzling matter of how to grow blueberries here in Nebraska. You lucky ones who fill the extra freezer in the garage with blueberries, the way we fill ours with sliced rhubarb or apple pie filling. Do you, for example, have a heartfelt love of blueberries, enough that you've bought a blueberry bush (or 30) and have studied the literature and have planted them, maybe years ago, and are still waiting for them to take off and produce like crazy?

The deep purple color of Aronia berries has actually attracted a lot of attention from scientific types. The berries are very easy to pick, since they hang in fat clumps, and they stay fresh in the refrigerator for a week or two. The kids and I were given permission to pick from a couple of very large and berry-burdened aronia bushes in a rather public place, and we picked on a couple different occasions this week.

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