Blueberryland: Taming the Maine Wild Lowbush Blueberry

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What Walter Staples had intended used to be for this book to be a compilation of abnormal circumstances, anecdotes, and stories from his personal experience right through a period of twenty years of managing a somewhat small blueberry farm. It has turn into a description of an intimate association with the people and the land of the small town of Wesley in Washington County, Maine, a town not unlike each and every other blueberry growing town in the state. The industry developed over a period of fifty years from berries picked for circle of relatives use to more than 100 million pounds produced every year and marketed internationally.

The history of lowbush blueberry production in Maine is the story of 500 or more homesteads pioneered in the 1700s by settlers in a twenty mile-wide band inland and extending all of the length of its Atlantic coastline. Blueberries were one of the vital more widespread and plentiful berries, and the local Indian tribes had long before discovered the mother lode situated on the barrens. This used to be a near treeless area of eskers and meadows at the western edge of what has turn into Washington County along its boundary with Hancock County. Settlement used to be pressing inland from the seacoast villages right through the 1700s, but it used to be not until the 1900s, when railroad transportation had penetrated the area and factories had learned to preserve the berries by canning, that blueberries became of economic importance and the growing area extended beyond the barrens.

Staples gives a holistic view of the love affair with blueberries which he shares with the residents of his native state Maine. He does this in a wonderfully readable way by mingling personal stories, and facts and figures provided by the Maine Cooperative Extension Service, with recipes for treats as; Wild Blueberry Bundt Cake, Wild Blueberry Cobbler, Blueberry-Apple Jelly, and Wild Blueberry Muffins. Blueberryland gives a true taste of Maine.

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