Everything you ever wanted to know about blueberries. And I do mean everything.

[Page Turner]

In the Shadow of the Blueberry Titans, Smaller Growers Thrive

 

 

These breeds were also the pride and joy of Elizabeth Coleman White, a cranberry farmers’ daughter who worked with government researchers to establish the commercial blueberry industry in 1916. Until then, blueberries were a wild thing, an indigenous American fruit foraged like ramps or morels. White made taming the Northern highbush berries in her woods her life’s work, and made American agricultural history in the process.

Like cranberries, blueberries thrive in acidic soils, which the Pinelands have in abundance.

“They were really looking for a second crop for cranberry growers,” said Allison Pierson, the director of Whitesbog Preservation Trust, which runs the 3,000-acre White family farm, now preserved inside the Brendan T. Byrne State Forest. Known as Whitesbog Historic Village, it includes the Whites’ original plants, as well as the long-forgotten Katherine, June, Pemberton, Dixi and Wareham bushes still planted around her house. (Yes, Ms. Pierson said, you can pick from them.)...

[Wilbur]

Canada is the blueberry capital of the world.  That is all you need to know.  

[Ralphie]

5 hours ago, Wilbur said:

Canada is the blueberry capital of the world.  That is all you need to know.  

Hey!  The story was aboot the NJ Pinelands!

[Wilbur]

54 minutes ago, RalphWaldoMooseworth said:

Hey!  The story was aboot the NJ Pinelands!

It always gets a comment when I say that!    Especially from Piney's.   Which president was it that declared the Pine Barrens, the Blueberry capital of the world while he was stumping?  

[Mr. Silly]

9 hours ago, Page Turner said:

In the Shadow of the Blueberry Titans, Smaller Growers Thrive

 

I prefer to stay ignorant of blueberry information.

[Dottleshead]

I grew up on a home that had over a hundred blueberry bushes.  Honestly, I'm sick of blueberries. You all order your pancakes with blueberries.  I'll pass.

[Dottleshead]

They are a great brain food though.

[Further]

Wild blueberries & Wild strawberries forever

The domesticated versions are pale imitations 

[Dottleshead]

Oh look! Wife just delivered breakfast before our bike ride.