I worked the blueberry barrens in Downeast Maine one summer. Wild blueberries are low like this. We did it hunched over with hand rakes about a third the width of this harvester. My back has never been the same. That was in 1980 or so.
Yup my dad used to spend summers as a kid raking blueberries in Maine. One summer some guy got his hand stuck in the machine that separates the berries from the leaves and stems and mangled it up pretty bad. Dad stopped doing it after that.
Did it in the 90’s in Cherryfield. I see the old rakes posted from time to time in what is this thing and immediately can smell the sun, sweat, blueberries and immodan(sp?) pesticide
Can confirm I am European and I remember going a summer camp as a kid (somewhere in the late 2010s) and finding a giant blueberry patch in the forest and it was all just very short shrubbery like in the video
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u/AdEnough2267 2d ago
I was just wondering how blueberries are harvested. Tech is pulling target content straight from our brains now.