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Kansas City Star: See how summer berry lovers are picking their own at this KC-area farm

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Gieringer's Family Farm offers seasonal u-pick fruits and flowers in Kansas. Visitors pay a $3.50 access fee, with produce priced per pound after picking. Blackberries, ripe in July, are grown ...

See how summer berry lovers are picking their own at this KC-area farm

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Blueberries are low in calories but high in nutrients. The blueberry bush (Vaccinium sect. Cyanococcus) is a flowering shrub that produces berries with a bluish, purple hue — also known as...

Blueberry, any of several North American shrubs of the genus Vaccinium (family Ericaceae), prized for their sweet edible fruits. Hailed as a superfood, blueberries are an excellent source of dietary fibre, vitamin C, vitamin K, manganese, iron, and a number of antioxidants.

Blueberry is the common name for flowering plants in the genus Vaccinium, sect. Cyanococcus of the heath family Ericaceae, characterized by bell-shaped or tubular flowers and fruit that is a blue to black "false berry." The name also is used for the edible fruit of these plants.

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Seven Days: In Chittenden County, a Century-Old Dairy and a High-Profile Diversified Farm Hold Out Against Suburban Development

Ben Maille with Maille’s Dairy Holsteins, waiting to cross Dorset Street to return from pasture to the barn Credit: James Buck For a dairy farmer, Jim Maille is a late riser. He wakes at 6 a.m. and ...

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In Chittenden County, a Century-Old Dairy and a High-Profile Diversified Farm Hold Out Against Suburban Development