Wild Blueberries in the News
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January 14, 2015
Blueberries May Lower Blood Pressure
Can a cup of blueberries keep the doctor away? Maybe.
Researchers conducted a random, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of 40 postmenopausal women ages 45 to 65 with high blood pressure. Half ate 22 grams of freeze-dried blueberry powder (equivalent to a cup of blueberries) daily for eight weeks. The others consumed an identical-looking and tasting placebo.
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September 16, 2014
A Wild Blueberry adventure including bruschetta with tomatoes and Wild Blueberries
As you know, we live for our produce! So when the Wild Blueberry Association of North America invited us to join them for a press trip in Bar Harbor Maine with fellow registered dietitians and bloggers to visit the wild blueberry fields, learn all about their health benefits and enjoy incredible Wild Blueberry inspired meals, we jumped at the opportunity!
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September 16, 2014
Tiny wild blueberries deliver big nutrition
Good things come in small packages. The same can be said of the tiny wild Maine blueberry being harvested this time of year on otherwise barren rocky fields. In fact, the land in northern Maine where these short scruffy bushes grow is referred to as “the barrens.”
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September 15, 2014
Meet: Fourth-generation blueberry farmer Todd Merrill
Todd Merrill’s family-owned company, based in Ellsworth, has been in business since 1925, and he’s a fourth-generation blueberry farmer/processor. But he spent the first half of his career working elsewhere and returned to run the company just seven years ago. Since then he’s led Merrill Blueberry Farms to become the first – and only – company in the country to process organic wild blueberries for the frozen market. We talked to him about innovations, visits from rabbis and why Maine teenagers should get themselves up to Ellsworth and start raking.
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September 8, 2014
Selling Maine’s Wild Blueberries, One Tweet at a Time
On a cloudy August day on the blueberry barrens, about a dozen female bloggers from around the country, most of them registered dietitians, picked up metal blueberry rakes and obligingly stooped to conquer Maine’s wild blueberry.
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September 8, 2014
Bob Duchesnes: Wild Maine – Taming the Wild Blueberry
Learn what makes the little lowbush Wild Blueberry so special and different from the “tame” highbush cultivated blueberry in Bob Duschesne’s Wild Maine interview with blueberry specialist, Dr David Yarborough from the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Service.
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August 25, 2014
Wild Blueberry Fields Forever
Joining me on the trip were fellow dietitians and nutrition bloggers/writers, as well as a number of staff from the Wild Blueberry Association and its PR firm. It was a really great group – I loved chatting with everyone throughout the trip!
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August 25, 2014
6 Ways to get your Wild Blueberry fix beyond pies and muffins
We are in the middle of Maine’s wild blueberry season, which, thanks to plenty of rain and successful pollination (way to go, bees!) is projected to be a banner one. In Washington County, Maine’s wild blueberry country, pickers are busy harvesting the tiny native berries from more than 60,000 acres of barrens.
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August 25, 2014
Meet: Fourth-generation blueberry farmer Todd Merrill
Todd Merrill’s family-owned company, based in Ellsworth, has been in business since 1925, and he’s a fourth-generation blueberry farmer/processor. But he spent the first half of his career working elsewhere and returned to run the company just seven years ago.
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June 12, 2014
Two Cups of Wild Blueberries Lowers the Risk of Metabolic Syndrome
