Late Blueberry Harvest

This has been a very different year for blueberries. Normally we harvest berries at the end of July and certainly by the first of August, this year we started harvesting berries on 8/10 because we have to try and get the berries out of the field before my work force heads back to school! Right now we have parts of our fields that have all green-blueberries in it. This is not good and with all the rain, what is ripe is popping due to too much water.


We had to make a very difficult decision to not harvest our berries for Grade A fresh or frozen berries this year as our main function of the field has been to harvest and sell wholesale here on the farm to our customers and to CSA's. This was hard as this means that our loyal customers from years past have to try to find another grower to supply them their fruit. This also greatly impacts us as we depend on selling fruit to pay our workers and maintain our frields. Our up side is that we do have our value-added product of blueberry tea and a new product that we are currently in the development stage of and hope to have it out by September.

We have been trying to ease out of wholesale work for fresh blueberries and go all value-added anyway. So guess we do it this year and jump into full time with the value-added products. Tom and I have been so blessed by all of our customers and now we need those of you who were thinking about harvesting organic berries for fresh pack to step forward because the demand is high!

Hopefully warmer and drier days are ahead for the month of August and that a summer September is on the way!!