farmers took ownership of the blueberry barrens to maintain, preserve, and improve them, ensuring future generations would get the chance to enjoy Maine's wild blueberries. Today, tourism has ...

Ed Hennessey, of Whitneyville, raises his broad palm sideways to greet folks as we make our way past miles of wild blueberry barrens in his gray GMC pick ... are common in Down East and midcoast Maine ...

In November, Shipyard Brewing Company unveils its Blueberry Pie Ale, a cream ale with wild-blueberry concentrate extracted from the barrens of down east Maine. The subtle tart-sweet flavor of the ...

And in Maine, wild blueberry farmers are switching ... Without them we would not get this harvest.” I visited the blueberry barrens during the first week of the harvest, arriving at the ...

DEBLOIS, Maine — Hopping out of her pickup truck ... Even so, research indicates that the region’s blueberry barrens, places where the fruit naturally grows, are warming faster than the ...

This story was originally published by The Maine Monitor ... Tractors stand at the ready along rolling wild blueberry barrens Downeast, where fields of naked stems offer no hint of the glorious ...

had to re-create Maine’s blueberry barrens in highly controlled raised beds. They also had to account for the crop’s rich genetic diversity. The plants were carefully selected and genotyped ...

This story was originally published by the Maine Monitor. Tractors stand at the ready along rolling wild blueberry barrens Downeast, where fields of naked stems offer no hint of the glorious ...