Blueberries are an easy-to-grow superfood. They make good plants for containers so you can get a reasonable crop whatever the size of your garden. Blueberries, Vaccinium corybosum, taste delicious ...
Peru supplies nearly half of the fresh blueberries sold in the U.S. After last year’s heatwave, this is how the country is speeding up the race for varieties more resilient to climate change.
There are, in simple terms, two types of blueberry plants - the wild and the cultivated. The wild is native to the north eastern states of the US, particularly Maine, and over the border in Canada.
"I arrived at this farm without knowing what a blueberry plant was," says Aurelio Ortiz. A farming supervisor, Mr Ortiz is speaking as he oversees the harvest at Sunberries Field, a blueberry ...