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Your Heart Will Love Wild Blueberries!
New Research Shows Wild Blueberries Have Potential to Improve Heart Health Wild Blueberries are already easy to love – but now there’s yet another reason to keep those tiny, delicious berries close to your heart. Researchers at the University of Reading (UK), the University of Dusseldorf (Germany) and the University… Read More
A Symbol of Maine’s Agricultural Heritage: Harvesting the Wild Blueberry Crop
Wild Blueberries grow naturally on over 200,000 acres of fields and barrens that stretch from Quebec to Eastern Canada to Downeast Maine. On an average year the Wild Blueberry crop is usually around 223 million pounds. Wild Blueberries are harvested commercially only in Maine and Canada. Many of today’s independent,… Read More
In the Field with Wild Blueberry Farmer Greg Bridges
In Maine, Eastern Canada and Quebec the Wild Blueberry crop is about to hit peak ripeness. Wild About Health made a trip into the fields with third generation Maine Wild Blueberry farmer Greg Bridges to check in on this year’s crop. In 2012, Wild Blueberry production in Maine totaled 90.1… Read More
Pollination of the Wild Blueberry Crop
Spring is a very important time for Wild Blueberry farmers in Maine, Eastern Canada and Quebec where the Wild ones grow. This is when migratory beekeepers move tens of thousands of beehives into farmers’ fields to perform the invaluable service of pollinating their crop just as it is flowering. This… Read More
Enter to Win a Cooking Light Chill Cookbook via Our Wild Blueberries Chill Twitter Contest
Recently, Wild Blueberries partnered with Cooking Light Magazine to help launch its new cookbook Chill: Smoothies, Slushes, Shakes, Juices,Drinks & Ices which includes a wonderful collection of healthy summer beverage recipes made with real ingredients like Wild Blueberries. Want to get in on the yummy smoothie action… Read More
New Cookbook Cooking Light Chill: Smoothies, Slushes, Shakes, Juices, Drinks & Ices Has Great Recipes Using Wild Blueberries
Shaun Chavis shared with us the inspiration behind Cooking Light Chill. How did the idea for Chill come about? Why a cookbook with recipes for healthy smoothies, slushes, shakes and juices? SC:One of the things Cooking Light does so well is to show people… Read More
Green Days: National Salad Month Goes Blue!
Salads just aren’t what the used to be, and that’s a good thing. In fact, May is a month dedicated to salads – it’s National Salad Month, a perfect time to take a close look at your big bowl of greens and make sure it represents this brave new world…. Read More
Blueberry Rakers: Wild’s History on Display
PMA Show is a Tribute to Harvesting Traditions The images are rendered in black and white, a medium that illustrates the rough-hewn world of field labor. The subjects are workers and their families who formed the Wild Blueberry raking crews. They are engaged in work and rest, framed by the… Read More
Plants Spring to Life in Wild Blueberry Country
The Harvest is Months Away, But Growers Are Thinking Blue Each year when winter is slowly replaced by high sun and rising temperatures, our thoughts naturally turn to planting. It means spring is on the way, and the time for taking advantage of the earth’s bounties is close at hand…. Read More
Double Life as a Maine Wild Blueberry Farmer
NatGeo Traveler Editor Comes Clean About Life in the Fields Costas Christ, Editor-at-Large at National Geographic Traveler, admits that he may have surprised a few of his friends when he wrote in his Traveler column, “Tales From The Frontier”, that his life is split between his role as an international… Read More
