
✔️We decided to join Farm and Food Care because we feel that your mandate to promote PEI’s food system lines up well with our mandate to promote the PEI Wild Blueberry industry.
✨Tell us a bit about your organization and your connection or passion for food and farming in PEI?
✔️The PEI Wild Blueberry Growers Association is mandated to represent the 125 PEI wild blueberry growers, who are currently cropping an estimated 12,650 acres. Our organization strives to promote and encourage the advancement of wild blueberry growing in PEI.
✨If you could tell consumers one thing about food and farming in PEI, what would it be?
✔️We would encourage consumers to become familiar with the PEI agriculture industry, and to support local as much as possible. And of course, to eat wild blueberries!
✨What would you like our audience to know about your organization?
✔️We would like your audience to recognize the hard working wild blueberry growers in their communities and across the Island, and to recognize the wild blueberry industry as an important economic and cultural contributor.
✨Tell me one fun/ interesting fact about your business/ organization?
✔️Wild blueberries are naturally occurring and are specific to the east coast of Canada and the US, and aren’t found anywhere else in the world.
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