Update…
Friday, July 4, 2008
The 2008 KBFarm blueberry season officially came to an end today. We had heavy picking Monday and today which pretty much depleted the supply of quality berries. We will open Saturday to allow a few people to pick what is remaining of the rabbiteye berries. The unripe berries still on the bushes will not likely ripen into quality berries. We had a great number of interesting people come this year. One lady was originally from Ethiopa and one from Taiwan as well as another from Austria. Most of the customers expressed their support and had good things to say about our berries as well as our operation.
Now we can get on with the maintenance of the bushes and weed control which is going to be a major job, as usual. We just about doubled the pounds picked compared to 2007. There is tremendous potential in 2009 to quadruple what was picked this year. The rabbiteyes did not produce this year as they did in 2007. The word is spreading and we have a greater number of customers to contact for next year’s crop. For the most part, the weather cooperated except for one Saturday that we had to shut down because of storms. That would have been an excellent day without a doubt and it would have been the final day for the highbush berries. After that, we focused on the rabbteye berries.




