Re:The Lost Art of Growing Blueberries with Fire
by sharksauce on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @04:52PM
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> Field across the road used to be a blueberry field, and one of Wyman's huge freezer facilities is a few miles down the road, along a now discontinued rail line.
> Now its a high school. Ahh, goodbye nice friendly traffic pattern, I miss you.
I think I know exactly the town you're talking about.
During my time Downeast I was told I should cut down the wild berry bushes we had growing all around our driveway every autumn. Hell with that, said I. Next year, with no berries, I figured they might have a point.
Field across the road used to be a blueberry field, and one of Wyman's huge freezer facilities is a few miles down the road, along a now discontinued rail line.
Now its a high school. Ahh, goodbye nice friendly traffic pattern, I miss you.
That said, I don't think they've actually stopped burning blueberry fields, every so often I hear someone talk about it. It doesn't seem to be a lost art, just a lesser practiced ones. The kind of wild blueberries we have up here (not those fat ugly tasteless ones other states grow) seem to require it from time to time.