While Florida’s blueberry season is done for this year, blueberries are in high season in the Carolinas, and moving up to the northeastern states. Prices are at their lowest, so you may be tempted to either find a U-Pick field near you, or even hit up your grocery store to take adv...
While Maine is the leader of lowbush blueberry production in the United States, Michigan is the leader in highbush production.[3] In 1998, Michigan farms produced 49 million pounds of blueberries, accounting for 32% of the small, round berries eaten in the United States.[4]Significant acreag...
Just down from the ferry were a couple of picturesque red barns. We had seen them before, and they had an unusual set of openings that Gigi realized were for drying tobacco — still a cash crop in these parts, though much less so now since the housing boom caused so many farms of all...
The increase in the surface areas intended for blueberry cultivation in the farms has generated a need for seasonal workers, which over the years has reached 90% of the requirement in the harvesting period. Again, on the basis of the demand-driven type [41], the number of companies which ...