A new fruit that research says packs more antioxidants than popular “superfoods” like blueberries, acai berries and goji berries is establishing itself in the aisles of mainstream groce… ...

The aronia berry grows on a showy, fast-growing shrub, reaching 6 to 8 feet tall. ... Aronia plants and aronia products will also be for sale at the Aronia Festival.

“Aronia berries are full of antioxidants, which makes them very healthy. And delicious, too, worked up into juices, pancakes, breads, just like you would with any other berry," said Jerry Nicholson.

She knew her entrepreneurial husband's wheels were turning. Shortly thereafter, Bob ordered 2,000 aronia bushes to plant on a 3-acre plot near his childhood home, which his father still owns.

With a high antioxidant content and functional properties, aronia berries might be the next big hero ingredient for better-for-you applications, Blake Johnson, managing partner with American ...

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 ...

Native to North America, the aronia berry, ... By June 2011, the couple, with help from family and friends, spent a weekend hand planting 2,400 aronia plants on their farm in Fairbank.

Aronia berries, a dark purple berry native to North America, ... “One acre of land can support 700 Aronia plants, with an average yield of 20 pounds per plant, ...

As I thought about this column over the last several days, I gave it the working title “A Day in the Kitchen with Aronia Berries” but in all honesty it ...

The Iowa Aronia Berry Farm is primarily run by Clint Van Hauen, a former agriculture teacher in the Colo-NESCO Community School District. He and his wife, a physician with McFarland Clinic, moved to ...

MISSOURI VALLEY, Iowa -- Health literature in the past has touted the benefits of the blueberry and cranberry. More recently, it's been the acai berry from Brazil. But there's a new berry making ...