Dried American Elderberries
Now available while supplies last!
See the pages.
Bulk Frozen Native Elderberries-2021
Freeze Dried Elderberries
Bulk Frozen Juice
While supplies last!
Frozen Elderberry Juice packed 2 gal. jugs. One 55 gal. drum with 45 gal. of frozen juice. Both are from certified organic American elderberries.
Welcome to berries selected from wild antiquity!
We only sell what we grow in the USA:
American elder flowers and berries
…Because they taste better!
[Click here to read a journal article comparing European Sambucus nigra and native North American Sambucus nigra canadensis.]
We had a reasonably good harvest in 2022 along with many new producing acres. At this point it seems that MEC has access to a sufficiently diverse set of producing farms with significantly more acres to much better smooth out the weather differences that affect all agricultural production.
Volume pricing for 2022 harvest bulk frozen berries:
- Sustainably grown American elderberries @ $3.50lb. plus delivery
- Certified organic American elderberries @ $4.00/lb. plus delivery
Being a native perennial, North American elderberry (Sambucus nigra canadensis) acts as a catalyst to better agricultural practices for many farmers. It can help revive rural economies and communities while providing nutrient dense flowers and berries that have healed humanity and the environment since earliest ages. It is a path to living in better harmony with the creation we call Nature. Growing native elder provides better pay for farm owners and labor as well as better health for people from many different ethnic traditions.
Organized as an open cooperative, Midwest Elderberry Cooperative’s (MEC) network of 100+ small to mid-sized farmers, located across the USA from CA to VA, are our greatest resource. They go beyond the sharing of information towards solving common problems and challenges from the design of equipment and quality control processes to simply getting the berries or flowers picked and packed and delivered to hundreds of craft food and beverage producers. And that means we can run out of elder berries and flowers because we do not have enough growers and USA acreage cultivated with our native wild-selected cultivars.
Our native elder are wild selected. We just put them in a field so that they don't run away! We invest in their soil to bring your better, naturally nutrient dense native elderberry and elderflower ingredients - often certified organic and grown by farmers practicing regenerative agriculture.
To learn more about how growing elderberry contributes to a healthy environment and rural economy, please go to the Growers tab.
Ingredient Product Update
July 2022:
Every year sees advances in the harvest and processing of native elder berries and flowers. We compete against an established European industry where wild collected is considered “certified organic” where our growers must invest in their soil annually.
Some good news for you. Your sample of freeze-dried S. canadensis (AHP#5834) had the highest concentration of anthocyanins; 8X times higher over 10 samples tested which included S. nigra, S. cerulea. S. candadensis and S. ebulus. Weber University ran the tests… {Conducted by American Herbal Pharmacopoeia, Scots Valley, CA]
- Dried certified organic elderflower - $37-40/lb., email orders info@midwest-elderberry.coop.
- Dried certified organic American elderberries available - from 1 lb. and more, see sales pages
- Please email orders for bulk frozen native elderberries - up to 100,000 lb. available
- We have over 400 gallons of bulk frozen juice from certified organic berries @ $40/gal. with large volume discounts negotiated beginning at 10 gallons.
- Individually Quick Frozen (IQF) blue elderberries (Washington state, Sambucus cerulea) pending confirmation.
- Now available! Thermally dried elderberries. Check their pages.
- Freeze dried elderberries available. Check their pages.
- Bulk frozen cleaned black currants - sustainably grown. Check page.
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The information posted on this web site represent the best efforts of the authors to express their views and perspectives on the cultivation, uses and potential benefits of elderberry consumption, but the information presented on this web site is not intended to constitute and should not be taken as any type of financial, nutritional, health, medical or legal advice.
First of all, we are only human and may be wrong when it comes to specific facts that someone might use in financial speculation, for example. Our methods of researching and understanding are founded on publicly available research dependant on the quality of the research team. It may turn out to be incomplete or wrong because medical research about health is very complex and constantly changing.
Secondly, we are not in a position to and do not intend to offer guaranteed advice about the legal, health, business, farming or other material affairs of any person’s life. That is for each of us to decide and do responsibly for ourselves.