This is a freshly harvested, then immediately frozen, 2 or 5-pound vacuum-packed bag of chokecherries, with pits still intact, for sale. They are sustainably wild-harvested, American sourced and never dried or dehydrated. Expect the cherries to be thawed and somewhat juiced from the shipping process. Harvest for out of stock chokecherries usually starts in August or September. More info on this product can be found below. Please see the notes below before ordering. This is important!
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* SHIPPING DAYS - We normally only ship on Mondays. Most of our products ship frozen and we do not want to risk the order sitting in a hot warehouse over the weekend and getting ruined. Orders need to be received by Sunday, noon Mountain time to ship that same week. If you need something sooner than that, reach out to us and we will see what we can do to help!
* INTERNATIONAL ORDERS – At this time we only ship to the USA. Canadian customers, we have importers that we work with that may be able to help depending on what you are looking for. Contact us for more info.
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Chokecherry Uses & History (from Wikipedia):
For many Native American tribes of the Northern Rockies, Northern Plains, and boreal forest region of Canada and the United States, chokecherries are the most important fruit in their traditional diets and are part of pemmican, a staple traditional food. The chokecherry fruit can be used to make jam or syrup, but the bitter nature of the fruit requires sugar to sweeten the preserves. Sacagawea was eating choke cherries when she was discovered by Lewis and Clark. The Plains Indians pound up the whole fruits—including the toxic pits (unless properly processed)—into a mortar, from which they made sun-baked cakes. The stone of the fruit is poisonous unless properly processed. In 2007, Governor John Hoeven signed a bill naming the chokecherry the official fruit of the state of North Dakota, in part because its remains have been found at more archeological sites in the Dakotas than anywhere else. Chokecherry is also used to craft wine in the western United States, mainly in the Dakotas and Utah, as well as in Manitoba, Canada.
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