Blueberries have grown wild in Maine for 10,000 years. These aren’t your typical grocery store blueberries. They’re smaller, sweeter, and healthier. They’re the backbone of a valuable industry in Maine, especially for Indigenous groups who’ve returned for generations to hand-harvest the fields. But in 2025, wild blueberry farmers in Maine experienced one of the worst seasons this decade, losing $28 million. So what happened? And how are farmers, processors, and scientists racing to save their ancestral wild blueberry?
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