Variable weather throughout the growing season is expected to result in a much-smaller yield for this year’s Maine’s wild blueberry crop. Maine Public reported that David Yarborough, blueberry ...

In Oct. 2024, the Wild Blueberry Commission of Maine was awarded $15 million from the USDA to distribute to growers to do ...

In the era of superfoods, Maine blueberries aren’t so super. The Maine wild blueberry industry harvests one of the most beloved fruit crops in New England, but it’s locked in a downward skid in a time ...

Wild blueberries took root in Maine 10,000 years ago, after the glaciers receded, and began growing in the acidic, sandy soils of what are now Washington and Hancock counties and the mountaintops of ...

Maine’s recent wild blueberry harvest has nearly doubled last year’s volume, as ample rain revived production to more normal levels after frost and dry weather ruined crops a year ago. The 2021 wild ...

Lobsters aside, there is arguably no more Maine-y food than the wild blueberry. Vaccinium angustifolium emerged in the state’s rocky soils millennia before humans roamed the earth, and farmers have ...

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At midday on a hot day in early August, pop music mixes with the whir of a custom-built winnower, the machine that separates a crop of freshly raked wild blueberries from the leaves and twigs and ...

Usually, wild blueberry producers in Maine harvest about 80 million pounds of blueberries a year. This year, they produced ...

In the era of superfoods, Maine blueberries aren't so super.The Maine wild blueberry industry harvests one of the most beloved fruit crops in New England, but it's locked in a downward skid in a time ...