Harvesting Wild Maine Blueberries FULL EPISODE
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Blueberries the OTHER Maine food! You think you got what it takes to be bent over all day hand raking berries in the hot hot heat?!? We work with Wyman's of Maine in this one while we rake and bake in the sun!
This was a very well produced and informative video! Thank you for this.
Appreciate the kind words and support!! Glad you enjoyed it!
I recently bought some property between Cherryfield and Deblois and the blueberry barons are so damn cool. I have to drive through 3 miles of blueberry fields to get to the property. I heard that the area gets heavy fog and that the blueberries love the fog. When I was buying my camp last November, I had to drive through the 3 miles of BB barons in the heaviest, thickest fog I've ever seen, you couldn't see 5 feet in front of the truck, it was pretty wild and it was heavy fog the entire 3 miles. Thank Thor my GPS worked or I would have been so lost. The real estate agent told me I'd have to drive through these BB fields to get to the property but was prepared at how truly vast the fields are, it was literally 3 miles of blueberry bushes and on they're on both sides of the road for as far as I could see. And that was only one patch, there's BB barons all over the area and they're all huge in size. I can't wait to meet all the nice people in the area and to be a part of the community.
It’ll be so much fun during pollination. Here’s a hint-keep the windows rolled up
@@Soundthenew22 I've been obsessed with the downeast area and its culture. I've recently watched 6 or 7 videos on how they pollinate the blueberries with honey bees and how they truck in the bees from all over the country. Sometime big bumble bees are used. They showed how they setup electric fences around the hives to keep the bears away. So I assume I'm going to see a LOT of bees for those weeks. I'm not sure when the pollination-season is, but it appears that its late spring/early summer, may/june, is that correct ?
@@TrevortonOffroad it sounds about right, whenever they start blooming.
Might want to keep an eye out for the bears too around then.
Have you met the guys that tend the fields yet? They’d know everything about that section. Should be another way in besides through the barrens
@@Soundthenew22 Yeah I hear that there is a large black bear population in the area.
I haven't met anyone tending the fields yet because I just bought the property in November 2023 and have only been there twice. I'm currently living in Pennsylvania but I'll be moving to the Cherryfield property in late March/early April.
From the best I can tell, the only way to my camp in Cherryfield is through the barrens. I'm north of the town of Cherryfield and very close to the southern border of Deblois. I can't wait to explore the area better, perhaps there is an easier way to get to my property but I haven't found it yet. Seems like the two Narraguagus rivers have the property surrounded on the east and west sides so the only way in is through the north and that means I have to drive through 3.5 miles of blueberry barrens... and then drive another 3.5 miles of woodland to get to my property.
@@Soundthenew22we bring bees in about may 10th until about 2nd week in june
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I did this in the 90s in cheeryfield area, its hard but rewarding work.
wow more berries from the other country making redwine or any wine
What was the reason for 40% being picked by hand?
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A lot of places machines can't reach. The guy I work for can get maybe 3/4 of his fields with machines, the rest he hires people to rake by hand since the terrain is too uneven or rocky.
Not all fields are flat and rock free either, I’d imagine hand raking is best for that.
I worked the berry harvest when I was a teenager; my personal best was 52 5 gal buckets in one day. The rake I used wasn’t a two handed rake like in this vid, one central grip. Hard work but very satisfying. Saw the northern lights, bathed in the lake, cooked on a wood fire.