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COMMUNITY HEALTH AND NUTRITION
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One benefit of university research has been the growing awareness of the scientifically verified health benefits of wild blueberries.
UMAINE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH
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The University of Maine has been involved in blueberry research since 1898, but it was not until the 1940’s that they purchased a farm specifically for blueberry research.
CIVIL WAR AND BLUEBERRY CANNING
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Civil War and Blueberry Canning The development of modern food preservation techiques, from Louis Pasteur’s works to the invention of home and industrial canning played a key role in the […]
INDIGENOUS CULTURE OF WILD BLUEBERRIES
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The first cultivators of wild blueberries were local indigenous people, going back at least 10,000 years.