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Here's how wild #blueberries are harvested and frozen in #Maine. #bigbusiness
Here's how wild #blueberries are harvested and frozen in #Maine. #bigbusiness
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This is an ordinary cultivated
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blueberry, the cheaper kind you find in
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the grocery store.
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They come from a species called northern
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highbush, bred by scientists in the
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early 1900s to last longer and be
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larger.
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Wild blueberries are smaller, often
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pricier, and pack more fiber and twice
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the antioxidant punch of cultivated
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ones.
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They also spoil more quickly, so
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processors like Wyman's, which supplies
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Walmart and Whole Foods, have to get
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them from the fields within a few hours.
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>> These bins are holding 250 to 300 lb of
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fruit. In one bin, the weight of the
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fruit will start to crush itself a bit.
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There's going to be juice running in
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places, and so it's just a perfect
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breeding ground for things that we don't
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want, such as yeast and mold.
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>> On a good day, we're packing 1.3 million
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pounds in the 21 hours that we process.
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>> This robot dumps the [music] fruit onto
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the line.
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While this winnowing table removes light
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debris like leaves [music] and sticks.
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>> Then they'll go through the initial pass
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of the first water bath to get all the
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sediment off the berries.
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>> Then the berries go to a flotation tank.
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Ones that are under [music] ripe will
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float off and get composted.
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>> A lot of times if you over water a
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berry, they'll create an air pocket in
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the center, and that's what also would
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create the berry to float off.
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>> Adam Westwood know, he's worked here for
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24 years.
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>> So I'm the fourth generation here at
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Wyman's. My great grandfather worked
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here back in the '60s. My grandfather
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worked here in the late '90s.
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>> Do you have any kids that are going to
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come through next?
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>> Uh no, I don't currently at this time.
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It's uh I'm I stopped the bloodline.
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>> The sweeter ripe berries sink [music]
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and head to sanitizing.
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Then they're frozen in this tunnel
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set at -28° [music] F
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because wild blueberries have such a
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short shelf life, only a tiny amount is
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eaten fresh. 99% are shipped out frozen.
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Finally, this machine bags them up.
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But in 2025, Wyman's receiving hall is a
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lot emptier than usual.
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>> On a normal year, we'd have about
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500,000 lb on the floor. Currently right
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now, we've got about 100,000 lb on the
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floor.
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>> A wet spring and a summer drought made
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last year one of [music] the worst
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harvest seasons this decade. It cost
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Maine's wild blueberry growers $28
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million. The plants
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>> The plants became [music] crunchy
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overnight, like you'd put them in the
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oven for too long.
