blueberries
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Athens-Clarke County
Climate Change Causing Global Rise in Temperatures, but Northeast Georgia Farmers Aren’t Feeling Effects — Yet
When Chris and Rhonda Luther planted their first blueberry bush in 2007, neither of them had ever grown blueberries before. Now they have more than 1,200 thriving blueberry bushes of eight different varieties in Union Point, Georgia. These bushes provide blueberries for them to make jam, jelly, and juice…
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In-Depth
HEMI Blueberry Farm: One Man’s Goal Comes to Fruition
“Blueberries are a very good plant,” said Hector Buitrago, a retired federal government employee from Colombia. “If you treat them good, they treat you good.” Buitrago now lives part-time in Greensboro, Georgia, as a farmer. Farming has been in his family’s roots for years. Buitrago grew up working on his…