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Our first ever website sale is SET! ✨ All this

Our first ever website sale is SET! ✨

All this week, the 25th-2nd, enjoy 25% off your entire online order with the promo code highfive25.

To enjoy these perks, and get a jump on your local holiday and wellness shopping, all you need to do is:

→ Go to our website that’s linked in our bio.

→ Fill your cart with the elder goods of your dreams.

→ Check out and use the promo code highfive25.

Sale prices do not apply to products bought at the Fruited Plain Cafe.

West Branch berries for all! ✨

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Ever notice how bright and bold our tonic’s colo

Ever notice how bright and bold our tonic’s color is? It’s our happy little berries and all their magic.

For our tonic, we take our fresh, organic elderberries and press them, right on our farm, to produce a rich and bright juice. We then freeze this good, good juice in preparation for tonic batching.

Because our process, from hand-picking to small-batch cooking, all takes place right here, by us, we know our goods are at peak freshness and brightness.

Shop our online store or swing by the farm tomorrow from 9 to noon!

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It's a great day to cozy up and check your elderbe

It's a great day to cozy up and check your elderberry stock. This tonic makes a mean warm winter drink. It also makes for happy mail in the midst of a Midwest snow.

West Branch berries for all! ✨

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What a lovely day it is. Sunny, a wee-bit of a bre

What a lovely day it is. Sunny, a wee-bit of a breeze, voting’s in, coffee too, and our first shipment is out the farm’s door!

YES! As of 11 this morning, WE ARE SHIPPING! Go to our website linked in our bio and put your order in. We’re still offering local pick up, ‘course.

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Elderberry is not a drug. It's indeed powerful a

Elderberry is not a drug.

It's indeed powerful and effective. And it's a magical ancient and healing herb and food. But elderberry is not a drug.

When we look to use elderberry medicinally, we look to it as an ally for our body’s natural response to its environment and stressors. We look to it to temper and enhance our body’s work. We don’t look to it to be the miracle worker, the sole bearer of all things uncomfortable, the answer and cure to the symptoms, the one and only thing we reach for in need. It’s an herb. It’s a food. But it’s not a drug.

Elderberry, as an ancient herb and food, is not intended to stop your body’s response or symptoms. It’s intended to meet these and help them pass along more comfortably and more quickly. It’s intended to be an assistant to your body’s natural work, letting it move along what’s ailing, replenishing it as it battles.

It’s true, too, that part of elderberry’s renown is its ability to inhibit viral replication and reduce inflammation. This can provide us the sensation of ‘elderberry is miracle’ but we should remember that elderberry is the body’s helper. Your body is the miracle. (You’re also the miracle for listening to your body).

When we can step outside of drugs as the treater, we are giving ourselves the power to step into a new world of possible and lifestyle of perpetual healing. One that asks us to know our body and its signs. To consider what it’s asking. To work with and not against our systems’ innate knowing. To learn what allies our bodies are requesting of us.

So let's get you some happy berries and let's heal!

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Everything is happier organic and everything is ha

Everything is happier organic and everything is happier in a basket and everything is happier gifted. 🌼

Our new girl on the block—the kit—has earned q

Our new girl on the block—the kit—has earned quite the reputation lately. Ease and perfection. Tasty and healing. We think you'll love her too!

Check out our stories later today to see a little tutorial on how to put this girl to work for you.

Got questions? Hit us in the comments! ✨

Our week was made because THERE WAS A BABY AT THE

Our week was made because THERE WAS A BABY AT THE FARM. And also, thanks to her mama, we’re nearing the completion of our online shop so we can open for shipping soon!

Sit tight but get those tabs open. Shipping updates will be found here!

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The Farm is open for pick ups today from 9-12. Tak

The Farm is open for pick ups today from 9-12. Take yourself on a nice little drive just a mile from Orange City and get you some berry.

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Today’s a good day for an ELDERBERRY GIVEAWAY!

Today’s a good day for an ELDERBERRY GIVEAWAY!

Eager to try our new elderberry tonic or kit? Already love the tonic and just need you some more? Always up for an adventure?

Enter the giveaway by doing all these easy steps:

Like our page
Share this post
Tag 3 or more friends in this post’s comments

Then sit tight! The lucky winner chooses a tonic or kit and will be announced tomorrow at 10 am!

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About 95% of elderberry ingredients sold in the gr

About 95% of elderberry ingredients sold in the great USA are imported from Europe. Ninety. Five. Percent. We believe we can do better. ✨

When you import a product, when it changes hands and boats and planes and warehouses countless times, you create the necessity for lots of funny business. Likely for a highly-processed, long-sitting elderberry ingredient; for a price or money vote that pacifies the many unknown hands; for a who-knows-where-I’m-from berry; for near total lack of accountability.

Of course, we nod that trade holds its place. But, in elderberry’s case, we offer a better way—the North American Elderberry, the sambucas nigra canadensis, the berry we grow here.

Similar to the European elderberry found in most products you find, the North American elderberry packs unique and beneficial antioxidant flavonoids, vitamins A-C, essential minerals, and fiber. But the latter, our berry, has SEVEN different anthocyanins while the European berry has four. Anthocyanins are what provide certain plants their deep, dark coloring—that black, purple coloring of the elderberry. And they’re what provide that high, high dose of antioxidant value. The anthocyanins specific to the American elderberry are also unique because they show a greater resistance to heat and light—allowing these antioxidants to withstand necessary processing of the berries upon harvest. That means this berry has great potential to carry its value into your elder goods.

So buy better. Buy American. Support an area farmer. And boost your body. ✨

Sources in the comments.

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Our doors are open! Place your order online—link

Elderberries in October. Each month we’ll shar

Elderberries in October.

Each month we’ll share what the berries on our farm are up to.

Around this time, we begin our winter pruning. Many of our plants have been cut back or pruned and look a little drab like so. This is an important part of preparing our plants for their spring regrowth and little overall health check. Pruning of the weak, dead, or broken canes of before, allows for new, healthy canes to take over.

Pruning is also vital because elderberry production is highest when canes age 1-3 years old. Cutting back the canes that are more senior encourages the younger survivors to produce in their prime.

Like a little winter spa day for the girls. 😍

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Mondays and leftover poffertjes are infinitely bet

Mondays and leftover poffertjes are infinitely better smothered in our elderberries.

Whip some of our elderberry jam with some of our elderberry tonic and you've got yourself the best little topping on this side of the Big Sioux.

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A West Branch Tonic and DIY Kit are born. 🌼 Me

A West Branch Tonic and DIY Kit are born. 🌼

Meet our organic 16 oz elderberry Tonic! It’s our ready-to-sip elderberry powerhouse, touting 2,223 mg of elderberry per 1 teaspoon serving. (Many gummies pack only 50-100mg of elderberry per serving). Organic elderberry blended with local Iowa honey and our favorite mix of organic, healing herbs, makes this girl one we love.

And meet our organic DIY kit that can cook you up to 32 ounces of your own hand-crafted elderberry tonic! This girl is a blend of our organic elderberries and the same organic, healing herbs you’ll find in our Tonic. Cook it down and sweeten it (or don’t) your own way.

Both are small-batch made in our commercial kitchen right on our farm’s back step! Plant to bottle couldn’t be quicker or fresher.

Get these girls on our website, from @thefruitedplain, or from @fieldsoffunsiouxcenter !

They’re here! Two shiny, tasty, boosting berry g

They’re here! Two shiny, tasty, boosting berry goods.

The official introduction to our inaugural two West Branch elderberry goods happens TOMORROW! Mark your calendars for Saturday at 9 am and peep our Facebook page, Instagram page, or our website to meet them both!

All the goods will be available for local pick ups. And shipping is the works!

Don’t forget to like our page to stay in the loop with all things elderberry.

Who has found our two new elderberry goods in our

Who has found our two new elderberry goods in our fun, local test run location?

Be the first to tell us where you’ve found them, tag 3 folks who ought to know, and get yourself $5 off a product of your choice!

Our journey to your cabinet began in 2016 with con

Our journey to your cabinet began in 2016 with converting conventionally-farmed Iowa land to organic elderberry orchards. We intended to bring wellness and community and best-practice to our area. We believe we’ve done so thus far as wholesale elderberry growers.

But with the rush and excitement that is 2020, we heeded the call to become self-sufficient, our-farm-to-your-hands focused, and ultimately to grow + make + sell our own line of nutrient-dense, rigorously-sourced, ready-to-use elderberry products.

That’s why we have recently teamed up with @wildroostelderberry to bring you a family of (slightly adapted) tasty, healing elderberry goods! We’ve had fun working together in the past and we look forward to what our partnership will bring to you and yours!

Who’s tasted @wildroostelderberry and had better days?

A big and needed exhale, as our farm quiets and ou

Now that we’ve wrapped up a busy and full and co

Now that we’ve wrapped up a busy and full and comforting 2020 harvest—we’re turning our spirits towards those big plans for our little Iowa berry! Stay tuned as we awake our sleepy little account and cook up some tasty and healing elderberry goods.⁣
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