{"id":589,"date":"2016-07-16T19:05:36","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T19:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/?p=589"},"modified":"2016-07-16T19:05:36","modified_gmt":"2016-07-16T19:05:36","slug":"july-16-2016-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wildblueberries.me\/alexanders\/july-16-2016-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Blueberry Harvest Update &#8211; July 16, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Saturday, July 16, 2016<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wild Maine lowbush blueberries ripen at different times. \u00a0But unlike strawberry farms, we do not begin the harvest or open the U-Pick field until 95% or more of the wild blueberries are ripe.<\/p>\n<p>This photo was taken today while I spent some time scouting the blueberry fields. \u00a0 We estimate that it will be <strong>close to August 1, 2016<\/strong> when our blueberry harvest begins.<\/p>\n<p>If you have yet to order your 10lb. boxes of blueberries, you can quickly place your order here:\u00a0<a href=\"\/order-wild-maine-blueberries\/\">Reserve Your Blueberries Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Harvest updates will be added to the website, the Facebook page, and e-mailed to those on our e-mailing list as the season gets closer. (<a href=\"\/mailing-list\/\">Join the E-mailing List Here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>I observed plants in the U-Pick fields that were so full of wild blueberries, the plants were leaning under the weight. \u00a0If you have ever picked lowbush wild blueberries, you know that&#8217;s a handpicker&#8217;s dream!<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to seeing you soon!<\/p>\n<p>Denise Alexander<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1205\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-594\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/7-16-16-7.jpg?=s0\" alt=\"7-16-16 (7)\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, July 16, 2016 Wild Maine lowbush blueberries ripen at different times. \u00a0But unlike strawberry farms, we do not begin the harvest or open the U-Pick field until 95% or more of the wild blueberries are ripe. This photo was taken today while I spent some time scouting the blueberry fields. \u00a0 We estimate that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,11,48,76,82],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-season-updates-and-farm-news","tag-alexanders","tag-blueberry-farm","tag-lowbush-blueberries","tag-wild-blueberries","tag-wild-blueberry-farm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildblueberries.me\/alexanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildblueberries.me\/alexanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildblueberries.me\/alexanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildblueberries.me\/alexanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildblueberries.me\/alexanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildblueberries.me\/alexanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildblueberries.me\/alexanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildblueberries.me\/alexanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildblueberries.me\/alexanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildblueberries.me\/alexanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}