Wild blueberries selling at an all-time high

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Thompson, who picks relatively close to home, believes the blueberry crop is so plentiful this year is because of ideal rainfall with warm temperatures. She also thinks ash from last summer’s wildfires may also have contributed. 

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“They are all over. I haven’t gotten out of town, but I hear there’s lots all over everywhere because of the rain. There’s actually berries where there’s burn areas. In some places they regrew and they are just huge around there. There’s a lot of berry pickers everywhere.” 

Ideal weather conditions have led to a healthy blueberry crop. (Image Credit: Julie Powder/submitted)

Julie Powder has also been picking blueberries for decades. She began picking about three weeks ago and expects to continue until the end of September.  

“We have our camp set up about 20 minutes from La Ronge and we usually go about 10 minutes from here. Sometimes we go further down about another hour from here after we do this area,” Powder noted. 

“They are amazing this year. A lot of them are quite big and they are sweeter tasting. They are really good.” 

Powder added she sells to the same buyers every year and that $60 per pail is the highest she has ever seen it. She said people are willing to pay the higher price because the quality and the taste of a wild blueberry is just far more superior than what can be bought at a store.  

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