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Blueberries Are Ready For Picking At North Escambia Farm
June 19, 2010
The blueberries are ripe for the picking this weekend at A & N Blueberries in Molino.
Sweet, plump, perfect-color blueberries are just $1 per pound at the u-pick farm that has become a North Escambia tradition.
“They are sweeter than the blueberries you find in the stores,” Sarah Miller of A & N Blueberries said. “Plus it is just a fun atmosphere to bring the family to pick. We even have some families that will bring a lunch and have a picnic.”
“I love blueberries. I love blueberry jam. Blueberries on toast, on bagels,” she said. “Blueberries are just good.”
The blueberry farm sits on about six acres, with rows and rows of trees nearly two decades old. Miller and her husband Eli purchased the farm from his grandparents last year. The blueberries are top quality, good enough that Apple Market and other stores in Pensacola sell A & N Blueberries.
Sarah said that now is the time to pick blueberries for the freezer, and freezing blueberries is easy.
“You go straight from the farm to the freezer; you don’t even wash them first,” she said. “You wash them after you take them out of the freezer.” She said blueberries frozen fresh from the farm can last for a few years in the freezer. Fresh blueberries, she said, will remain at peak quality for about five days.
The blueberry crop is expected to be available until about July 14. The farm also has watermelons, cantaloupes , squash and tomatoes ready now.
In addition to the u-pick blueberries for $1 per pound, A & N also offers pre-picked blueberries for $3 per pound, and fresh blueberry jam.
A & N Blueberries is located on Suncrest Lane, just off Sunshine Hill Road about a half mile north of Molino Road. Click here for a Google map. A & N Blueberries is open Monday-Saturday 7 a.m. until dark.
For more information and blueberry recipes, visit www.anblueberries.com.
Pictured middle: Sarah and Eli Miller with son John Parker Miller. Pictured top and below: Farm-fresh blueberries at A & N Blueberries in Molino. NorthEscambia.com and submitted photos, click to enlarge.
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4 Responses to “Blueberries Are Ready For Picking At North Escambia Farm”
If you have a favorite LOCAL place to pick your blueberries or veggies, feel free to mention it here in the comments. However, let’s not mention large, commercial operations. More the smaller “mom and pop” places please.
Miller’s got some great veggies & berries!!!!!
Molino Jim, why dont you contact ne.com & let them do a story on the other people. & quit being rude………
Mr. Caraway has wonderful blueberries also. His place is on Molino Rd. east of Hwy 29. There is a sign at his yard.