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.

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 ...

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 ...

While the plumper cultivated blueberries harvested in states like New Jersey are planted and grown as crops, harvesters of wild blueberries tend to a naturally occurring fruit and pick it by hand ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wild blueberries also naturally contain 30 percent less sugar than cultivated berries (just 10 grams per cup versus almost 15) and eight times the manganese, which is necessary for the body 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 ...

Harvesters collected a little less than 68 million pounds of wild blueberries in the state in 2017, which was the lowest total since 2005 and more than 33 million pounds less than 2016.