Archive for the ‘Healthy’ Category

2011 Wild Maine Organic Blueberry Harvest is Excellent Quality.

Nina, owner of Up Front Pleasant Gourmet, calls this years frozen blueberry crop “Excellent”. Perhaps even tastier than last year. She sells and eats our frozen Wild Maine Organic Blueberries from her store at 157 Front street, Farmington.
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You can pick up your own 5 Pound freezer bag ($35) from our farm in [...]

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DJ and Kathy are hand raking our organic blueberries. Many thanks.

DJ and Kathy have been at farms in New Zealand, Costa Rica and Nicaragua learning through the WWOOFER program. We thank them for coming to help secure our harvest by hand so that you may have the best, tastiest and healthiest Wild Always Organic Blueberries from Maine’s High Peaks Region. Our fields are at 1700 [...]

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MOFGA inspector checking out our fields at Peace and Plenty Farm.

Linda Smithers checking out the growth in organic matter on our second field in Madrid, Maine.
All the biodiversity makes for tasty and healthy Wild Organic Blueberries. We have a coding system that tells who picked, when and which field.
Our Mound ants are a healthy sign of of no chemicals on our fields ever.

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Pesticides are a real health threat: Organic products offer a healthier choice

2010 Press Releases
Pesticides are a real health threat: Organic products offer a healthier choice
Contact: Barbara Haumann (413-376-1220; bhaumann@ota.com)
Greenfield, Mass. (Nov. 18, 2010)— In response to John Stossel’s show “ Is ‘Natural’ Better?” that aired tonight on Fox Business News, the Organic Trade Association (OTA) alerts consumers wishing to minimize their families’ dietary [...]

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Organic blueberries are helped by Mound Ants.

I have been struck by the almost regular pattern of mound ants in our blueberry fields and was very interested to find organic blueberry research on this subject. Because our fields have never had pesticides or fungicides the ants are healthy and help fight pests of the blueberries. Lloyd Griscom
Insects – 195-Beneficial Insect Series 1: [...]

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