The professional pickers’ fingers fly through rows of bushes at Tom West Blueberries in search of indigo-colored berries among the green and violet fruit.
The next two months are make-or-break for blueberry growers in Central Florida, whose business hinges on factors they can’t control: the weather, labor, the market — and their competitors’ luck.
“You definitely have to do a lot of praying,” said Stacy (West) Willliams, 41, who runs Tom West Blueberries in Ocoee with her brother, Scott West, and their father, Milton West.
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