Got blueberries?
Well, maybe not yet.
But with New Jersey’s annual summer blueberry harvesting season arriving mid-June, it may be a good time to stake out your favorite blueberry pick-your-own farm in the area.
And while the number of state blueberry farms has dwindled throughout the years, there’s still more than a handful of independent operators in Monmouth and Ocean counties and further south.
New Jersey, which last year ranked fourth in the country in blueberry production, harvested 49 million pounds on 7,500 acres with a value of $62.5 million, according to State Department of Agriculture spokeswoman Lynne Richmond.
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