As of SEPT. 2021, we will no longer be shipping
our frozen berries or dried blueberry powder
We have been through tremendous challenges and changes over the past year and a half, and have recognized the need to pivot our efforts towards a greater focus on marketing on a local scale. This improves our labor and time demands, shrinks our farm's carbon footprint, and helps develop the growing demand for this amazing native fruit in our home state where small-scale growers are facing immense challenges. We still sell frozen berries, but only for pick up at our farm.
We are very sorry if you depended on having our berries shipped,
but hope you might consider a trip to our farm in Maine!
There are frozen Maine organic wild blueberries
very much like ours
available for shipping from folks we know:
visit: https://joshpond.com/#home
Choose Maine. Choose Organic. Choose Wild.
B L U E B E R R I E S !
We produce the highest quality, certified organic Maine wild blueberries, from fields that we manage in our remote coastal peninsula. When you buy directly from us, the farmers, you can “know your farmer,” and know that we grow and produce our berries under strict organic management with third-party verification (MOFGA Certified Organic since 1997).
On our family farm, there is no factory or industrial-scale harvesting or processing. Our wild blueberries are gently raked into small totes in the full height of summer, when they are at their peak ripeness, and they are frozen within a day that they are harvested and winnowed on our family farm. This is in contrast to the more factory-scale “IQF” (Individual Quick Frozen) wild blueberries --that are produced by the large processors and distributors, and that you find in grocery store freezer aisles-- where the berries are machine harvested into large totes, then soaked in a solution before freezing and laser-sorting. Unlike the IQF berries, our berries still have their “bloom” intact, which is the whitish powdery coating on the skin of each berry (the “epicuticular wax”) that protects it and helps maintain its just-picked qualities —their summer ripeness is captured unaltered. This means our berries thaw out to look and taste just like they were fresh.
On our family farm, there is no factory or industrial-scale harvesting or processing. Our wild blueberries are gently raked into small totes in the full height of summer, when they are at their peak ripeness, and they are frozen within a day that they are harvested and winnowed on our family farm. This is in contrast to the more factory-scale “IQF” (Individual Quick Frozen) wild blueberries --that are produced by the large processors and distributors, and that you find in grocery store freezer aisles-- where the berries are machine harvested into large totes, then soaked in a solution before freezing and laser-sorting. Unlike the IQF berries, our berries still have their “bloom” intact, which is the whitish powdery coating on the skin of each berry (the “epicuticular wax”) that protects it and helps maintain its just-picked qualities —their summer ripeness is captured unaltered. This means our berries thaw out to look and taste just like they were fresh.
Maine's finest organic wild blueberries
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And now, a personal note, from your farmer:
If I ran the zoo —you know, if I was really in charge of everything— I would make everybody eat at least one serving of wild blueberries every day. I mean, it wouldn’t be that much to ask, and certainly isn’t painful, and would be so good, for everyone! They taste so good, are naturally sweet, are useful and adaptable in so many different ways, for breakfast, lunch or dinner in cereals, baked goods, smoothies, with other fruit or just by themselves…..AND, they’re incredibly healthy, too! Now I don’t think I’d ask for everyone to stop eating candy bars or french fries or drinking soda —that might be asking a little too much— but to require a daily dose of blueberries seems a small demand that would help make everyone more healthy, and happy. So, I say you should try some Maine wild blueberries in your own smoothies, every day. Or with yogurt. Or make a batch of blueberry muffins, or a blueberry pancake breakfast for the family this weekend. The happiness and health possibilities are endless! Enjoy! --Nicolas |