I’m sure glad I didn’t plant more than I did and even those acres of berries are to many. They don’t get diseases and they don’t need sprayed but they are so concentrated they are hard to use. Some years I sell them all but not the last 2 years there has been no interest in aronia. The big juice companies are still importing them from overseas! Study the old orchard juice labels there is aronia in there Aronia Harvest . Your harvest looks great @jessica4b . We are one trick away from being millionaires from aronias! When we bite down on the berry it’s sweet at first the tannins don’t hit you at first. If we could seperate tannins from the aronia in a juicing process there would be arguments over who got the crop. It’s my belief it will be done someday. The aronia will be a focus for gmo scientists and they will do it eventually but I hope not I’m not a gmo fan at all. If the seed was fertile it’s likely I could breed the bitterness out of the berry using natural selection.
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