Levi's Farm · Keota, Iowa

100% Pure Aronia Berry Juice

Cold-pressed, never from concentrate. Bold & earthy.

From our fields to you — USDA Organic juice pressed from the most antioxidant-rich fruit tested—ever! The flagship of Levi's Farm, and the true epiphany is perennial AG representing everything Levi believes about working with the land.

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Part of what makes this farm a living laboratory is seeing what Iowa-grown aronia can become in good hands. Arozen, a family operation in Mediapolis, Iowa, cold-presses aronia into juice blends and a single-ingredient powder.

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A Farmer's Promise

What's in the bottle, and what isn't

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100% Pure, Not From Concentrate

No water added back, no reconstitution. Just aronia, pressed and bottled — the way the fruit actually tastes coming off the bush.

Cold-Pressed

Pressed without heat to keep the fruit's character intact. Bold, tart, and earthy — an honest juice for people who want the real thing.

USDA Organic

Certified Organic by IDALS, grown on ground stewarded with no-till and cover crops for three decades.

Antioxidants

Highest of any fruit USDA-tested

vs. Blueberries

3× the antioxidant content

Bottled In

Keota, Iowa

Net Weight

30 fl oz (887 mL)

Aronia is celebrated for its antioxidant and anthocyanin content. We share the USDA testing data and let the fruit speak for itself.

A World Record Holder's Endurance Secret

The juice behind the story

Levi didn’t plant aronia to chase a market. “I was looking for diversity for our farm,” he says, “and something native to the Midwest.” What grew from that became Levi’s Indigenous Fruit Enterprises — and a juice with a story behind it.

Growing aronia berries has become a great analogy for how we can work sustainably with nature to grow food.
— Levi Lyle
A Living Laboratory for Stewardship

The aronia is the evidence. The land is the lesson.

Behind the juice is a 250-acre farm Levi runs with his father, Trent —  ground farmed in no-till for thirty years, now growing certified-organic crops alongside the orchard. The same care that makes the soil healthy is what makes the fruit harvest bountiful.

Spring

Prune

The shrubs are pruned to rejuvenate them for the season ahead.

Summer

Tend

Levi mows the rows to keep grass and weeds at bay while goats, chickens, and wildlife move through the orchard keeping pests in check and improving the health of the system.

September

Harvest

The dark, heavy berries come in — then pressed and bottled cold.

Winter

Rest

By Thanksgiving the season closes; the land rests until spring.

See how Levi helps other farms "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime" Matthew 4:19 →
Also From the Farm

Beyond the flagship

Aronia is the heart of Levi's Farm, but it isn't the only native crop in the ground. Each was chosen for the same reasons: indigenous, sustainable, suited to this soil, and organic certified.

Early Summer · U-Pick

Honeyberries

Among the first fruits to ripen each season.

Mid-Spring · U-Pick

Tart Cherries

The first experimental — and then commercial — dwarf cherry orchard in the United States.

Late Summer · Limited

Pawpaws

North America's largest native fruit — rare and seasonal.

From the Field

Growing Aronia

The farm is a classroom as much as a business. For the growers and acreage owners who ask, here's what Levi has learned.

A Sustainable Crop
The University of Wisconsin–Madison gives aronia top marks for sustainability — adaptability, pest resistance, short time to first yield, and machine-harvest potential. Shrubs bear their first berries in about three years.
Spacing
Levi recommends 3 feet between plants and 10–12 feet between rows — wide enough for mechanical mowers and overhead harvesters.
The Plant Itself
Aronia (Aronia melanocarpa), also called chokeberry, grows 6–8 feet tall in Zones 3–8, wants full sun or partial shade and well-drained soil, and yields roughly 2 pounds per bush a year.
Varieties
Viking for highest yields; Nero for a smaller shrub; Autumn Magic for ornamental use.
The Farm in Pictures

A gallery growing with the seasons

The family, the fields, the equipment, the harvest — photography from the press features that told this farm's story, alongside the brand it all leads to. (label → brand)

Photography by Adam Albright & Marty Baldwin (Living the Country Life) and Jason Johnson (No-Till Farmer), from published features on Levi’s work.

Where to Find the Berries

Carried by grocers across eastern Iowa

Fresh aronia, August through November — look for the LIFE sign at these participating stores. Aronia berries hold the highest antioxidant capacity of any fruit in USDA published testing.

New Pioneer Co-op

22 S Van Buren St, Iowa City

New Pioneer Co-op

1101 2nd St, Coralville

Hy-Vee

1720 Waterfront Dr, Iowa City

Hy-Vee

812 S 1st Ave, Iowa City

Hy-Vee

1914 8th St, Coralville

Hy-Vee Food Store

1300 W Burlington Ave, Fairfield

Hy-Vee

1004 W Madison St, Washington

Hy-Vee

20 Wilson Ave SW, Cedar Rapids

Hy-Vee

1843 Johnson Ave NW, Cedar Rapids

Hy-Vee

3235 Oakland Rd NE, Cedar Rapids

Hy-Vee

5050 Edgewood Rd NE, Cedar Rapids

Hy-Vee

1556 1st Ave NE, Cedar Rapids

Hy-Vee

4035 Mt Vernon Rd SE, Cedar Rapids

Hy-Vee

279 Collins Rd NE, Cedar Rapids

Hy-Vee

3600 Business Hwy 151, Marion

Fareway

301 N Marion St, Washington

Keota Eagle Foods

217 E Broadway Ave, Keota

K & L Foods

118 S Main St, Sigourney

JW Foods

E Ave, Kalona

Golden Dome Market

1112 Granville Ave, Fairfield

Everybody’s

501 N 2nd St, Fairfield
Get the Juice · Visit the Farm

From our fields to you

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Buy the Juice

100% pure aronia berry juice, USDA Organic, in the 30 fl oz bottle.

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At Market

Find Levi's Farm in season at the Iowa City Farmers Market.

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Visit · U-Pick

Tart cherries, honeyberries, and aronia in their seasons.

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From Our Fields to You

Taste what stewardship makes.

One bottle, pressed cold from organic Iowa aronia. Bold, earthy, and honest about what it is.

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