You buy them in a five pound box. And they are delicious. Living in Nova Scotia in August gives many blessings, not the least is eating wild blueberries. The blueberries are grown close to the ground on rocky soil. Each berry is sweet with a strong taste. These berries are grown in Nova Scotia or New Brunswick and can only be purchased in the last of August and a week or two of September. The rest of the year we eat the larger high bush berries, which are good but not nearly as good as the small, wild, low bush berries.
They are called wild but they are really cultivated on large farms and harvested by hand which means for lots of stooping. I read an article recently who said that the best berry pickers are the clam diggers because they are used to working close to the ground. Last summer, the berries were dry because we had a dry spring and summer, but this year the berries are delicious. We are about to buy our second box tomorrow. It is worth visiting Nova Scotia in late summer, just to enjoy those berries. Nothing like them in the world.
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