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["Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

Trader Joe's store here was recently selling frozen 'boreal blueberries' from Canada.  From the description and appearance of the fruit it is wild harvested lowbush blueberries from northern Canada.  The fruit was just frozen, not cooked, so it's possible the seed would be viable if someone wanted to grow it.  Having grown blueberries from seed it's interesting, but odd.   It takes a cool, high humidity environment to germinate them.
The seedlings are so tiny it just looks like there's green algae or moss on the soil at first.  Then a few seem to outgrow the others and get big enough to be visible as individual plants. 
-Lon Rombough
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On May 30, 2009, at 11:15 AM, Ginda Fisher wrote:

I believe that Maine is the leading producer of wild blueberries.  Vast tracts of unselected lowbush blueberry plants are managed and harvested for the commercial market.  (Management includes periodic burning to reduce competition and importing bees during flowering, as well as harvesting.)  Fresh wild blueberries are available for sale in many grocery stores here in Massachusetts during the season, and are available frozen in my supermarket year round.

Ginda


On May 30, 2009, at 1:44 PM, John Barbowski wrote:

> Its nice to know that the blueberry industry is flourishing. It is a good tasting and wholesome berry. Unfortunately, it won't find a buyer in me. Call me a blueberry snob if you will, but the taste of cultured berries does not equal those from the wild. (but then, I like black currents so I might be biased). I was raised on wild blueberries; smaller than the cultivated ones, and according to some studies I have read, higher in antioxidant composition. I am in Ontario where the Canadian Shield dominates a good portion of the geography - much of it prime blueberry habitat. My weekend pancakes and crepes wouldn't be the same without a handfull of this elixir! (along with Canadian Maple Syrup).
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> While traveling through Maine, I noticed fields and fields of blueberry patches, and then a sign: 'Blueberry Capital of the World'; I'm sure its self-promotion.  But it is interesting that to note that Maine is not in the top three from Ginda's article. The Blueberry is Maine's official fruit.
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> also see:  http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Blueberry
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> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us> wrote:
> > "As recently as 1997, California grew only 196 acres of blueberries
> > but now it has about 4,500, which are estimated to yield more than 20
> > million pounds this season. That's still well short of Michigan, the
> > nation's largest producer at 110 million pounds last year. But when
> > California's plantings mature, its production may reach 50 million
> > pounds, exceeding Oregon's, now the third-largest U.S. producer."
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