“These are Duke,” said Duckworth, introducing me to the early-ripening variety we were picking that day.Īt a bush dripping with berries, Duckworth demonstrated how to cup a cluster with one hand gently roll the ripe berries off with the thumb of the other hand, leaving any still-green fruit behind to ripen. We put them on like fanny packs, lined the buckets with paper bags and set out with her daughters Snazzy and Lauren and son-in-law Jack Lundholm to a field of blueberry bushes. On an unusually warm and sunny day during an otherwise gloomy June, Duckworth handed me a small white bucket with an adjustable black strap. It’s a big ask for a little berry, but Lorri Duckworth, with the help of her idyllic 82-acre Sebastopol farm, is out to prove it’s possible. We just know we should be eating more of them.īut what if their real superpower was to help us be more present, heal a world rife with division and just generally create more joy? We’ve all heard blueberries are a “superfood,” packed with antioxidants and a bunch of other good stuff that we can’t remember.
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