Our travels this summer took us past McCardle’s Berry Patch several times a week, and we were frequent customers, following them from strawberries through raspberries and into will blueberries.
At some point Lisa asked “How acres of wild blueberries are grown on the Island?”, and we went to Kagi to find out.
This led us to a very helpful page on the website of Farm & Food Care PEI with capsule summaries of 22 of the major crops grown here.
13,000 acres is the answer to Lisa’s question:
About 125 Island producers manage approximately 13,000 acres of wild blueberries and harvested about 18.6 million lbs of wild blueberries in 2020.
It’s interesting to compare this to the figures for potatoes (85,000 acres), barley (47,800 acres), wheat (46,800) and soybeans (38,000 acres) on the top end, and apples (74 acres), cabbage (124 acres) and pumpkins (89 acres) on the bottom end.
I certainly couldn’t have named those figures off the top of my head, and while I knew potatoes would be significant, I had little idea of the relative acreage devoted to other crops.
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