Wild About Blueberries Blog
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Quite Contrary: Green Roofs Take Gardens to the Heights
At the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay Harbor, you can find plenty of lowbush blueberries in surprising places, but no more surprising than on this small-scale living roof. They’ve planted these blues up high – not to keep them from enthusiastic pickers (these “burgundy” blueberries are primarily ornamental) but to put… Read More
It’s National Farmers Market Week!
Celebrate By Targeting These 5 Market Fresh Foods by NatalieMaynor It’s not unusual to get a hankering for a bag of farm fresh potatoes (bursting with a variety of phytonutrients). Around the time when the urge hits, wouldn’t it be great to watch them instantly turn into a Garden Vegetable or Zesty… Read More
New! Harvest Pics From Down East Maine’s Wild Blueberry Barrens
Plus: What To Do With All That Blue? Awash in blue! In August, wild blueberry harvest season brings hundreds of workers to the fields, a sight that can only be witnessed in this region of the country. Washington County is home to half of Maine’s commercially harvested fields, and photographer/videographer Geoff Leighton was there for… Read More
Cowboys & Aliens: Battling Food From a Faraway Galaxy
Have you ever looked down at the food you’re eating and thought, “Where did you come from?” It’s no space age phenomenon – it can happen right here in 1873…er, 2011. You can get the feeling a spaceship arrived in your kitchen and took over what you thought was a… Read More
Sneaky Smoothies? One-Trick Ponies? You Might Be Sabotaging Your Healthy Servings
Doing all you need to do to eat healthy and maintain your weight? Calories are sneaky, and efforts to maintain a healthy weight can defy the best intentions. Consider our recent post about Chinese adolescents who report eating plenty of veggies but consistently outweigh their non-serving-eating counterparts. Even if you are getting… Read More
Maine Food at Your Fingertips: Down East Magazine Creates Food App
Live and eat in Maine or just love the state’s rich food culture? The Great Maine Food app, created for the iPad for Down East Magazine helps bring you and great local food together. The new app debuts with recipes, video tutorials, and menu planning for the Maine foodie, the foodie… Read More
Look East for Healthy Eating? Not for Veggies
Bizzaro health world? Study shows overweight youth in China eat more fruits and veggies than those who aren’t overweight. A new study published in the July 2011 issue of the American Journal of Health Behavior is reporting that overweight youth in China are doing something unexpected: they are eating lots… Read More
Serve the Season’s Fresh Fruit: 10 Way-Out Ways
Fruit with Swedish Pancake (CC) Courtesy of norwichnuts The fruit race is on! Fresh fruit is showing its color everywhere now that summer is at its apex. It makes a health-conscious eater wonder: How much fresh fruit can we actually eat? We know frozen fruits and vegetables offer the same taste and… Read More
Blueberry Harvest: Revisiting A Popular Post from 2010
It’s the height of the summer – an expectant time for those who live and work the communities of Down East Maineand Canadawhere wild blueberries are harvested. We posted this piece about the harvest season last year, and due to recent interest, we’re posting it again. All the exciting information… Read More
Saving Your Frozen for Processing? You’re Missing Out
A recap of the 2011 Berry Health Benefits Symposium includes some interesting data about those small nutritional gems we know as berries. All varieties were under discussion this year at this California symposium, including strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, and blueberries, as participants piled on the evidence for the berry’s superfood status and the… Read More
