Wild blueberries on the left, cultivated on the right. There has been a bumper crop of blueberries this year, maybe because we had a damp spring, or maybe they’ve done well in an especially hot ...

Woodland clearings are full of low bushes loaded with berries, abundant and free for the picking. Area berry farms (like ...

Anatomy of a Food Trend: Are Wild Maine Blueberries the Next Big Thing? How a hyper-local crop ends up on menus nationwide by Lisa Elaine Held Jul 6, 2016, 12:00 PM PDT ...

Baking with wild blueberries is easy if you know how Maine's wild blueberries cook up somewhat differently than their cultivated cousins. Posted July 29, 2018 ...

Yarborough said the state has about 40,000 acres of wild blueberries – compared to 300 acres of cultivated ones – yielding 80-100 million pounds of berries a year.

Blueberries are characterized by their sweet yet tart taste and presence in treats like muffins, pies, and scones. They can also change the color of your baked goods to a vibrant shade of purple or ...

The wild blueberry once helped sustain Native Americans, but cultivated varieties ship better. Either way, they are a nutrition powerhouse. ByRebecca Rupp July 27, 2016 •5 min read ...

The blueberries grow wild, as the name indicates, in fields called “blueberry barrens” that stretch to the horizon in Maine’s rural Down East region. While the plumper cultivated blueberries ...

Marie and Dell Emerson, who manage Wild Blueberry Land in Columbia Falls and sell wild blueberries out of a blueberry-shaped retail shop on Route 1, are developing a marketing push to ...

The Pocono Mountains in eastern Pennsylvania, along with the pine barrens of southern New Jersey and parts of eastern New England, were the original home of the native highbush blueberries from ...

Ron Howard, a seventh-generation blueberry farmer, says he’d love for this new event to make people more aware of local wild blueberries, in the same way that Maine Maple Sunday has helped ...

A truckload of wild blueberries arrives in Union. Maine's congressional delegation said Thursday that the USDA will buy up to 30 million pounds of blueberries. 2012 Associated Press file ...