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We kinda do - except I'm really fucking polite about it.

We sell direct to consumer, freshly winnowed berries, at good prices.

Well, better prices than they'll get elsewhere.

This used to actually be the main way of selling, but tourism and times change. These days, most of the berries get sold wholesale - typically to the cannery. I beat the cannery's price so that I can sell to companies like Stonewall Kitchen. That's why they buy directly from me (among others).

We grow a whole lot of blueberries in Maine. I do 200 acres a year. That's not even 5% of the state's total blueberry yield. But, by the same token, my yeild is about 4% of Maine's total. I have a partner with equal acreage. So, there's that... He mostly sells to the cannery and doesn't even have manual rakers anymore. They have people who rake the stuff they can't get with the tractor and rake the rest with the tractor.

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Cool. Does your partner take care of your fields?

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Nah, we kinda do that 'together' - which means I send a couple of people down to help out. I used to do it, but I haven't done much since smashing the old femur. The work is often pretty physical and I don't really want to injure the leg again.

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Do you have to burn it to the ground after the harvest?