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Article: blueberries
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- Yakima Herald-Republic
- Article date:
- June 29, 2006
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By Ross Courtney
Voices Staff Writer
Wapato -- As soon as blueberries turn blue, Jeff and Terri Weijohn
pick them.
It means several trips down each row because the fruit does not
ripen all at once, of course.
But there are blueberry thieves lurking nearby, waiting to pick
the bushes clean.
"If we don't pick them, the birds will," said Terri.
The birds aren't the only ones that like blueberries. Across the
country, blueberry consumption has jumped 50 percent in the past 10
years as nutritionists increasingly tout their health benefits,
according to the Washington Blueberry Commission.
Yakima Valley growers such as the Weijohns are trying to
capitalize. They began harvesting the earliest ...