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Announcing the closure of our U-pick blueberry business

6/19/2020

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After much deliberation and with heavy hearts, we are announcing that we are closing the Blue Bee Farm u-pick blueberry business.

We first want to thank all of you for three wonderful years. It has truly been an honor to meet many of you and to be part of your family traditions. However, with the current economic conditions, some staffing challenges, and the growth of our honey bee business, our choice was clear.

When we bought BlueBee Farm in 2017, we knew we had found the perfect place to continue our honey bee business with raising queen bees. With the blueberry plants already here, we had decided to continue the u-pick blueberry operation while we built our honeybee operations. In fact, our bees have been very happy here. This spring they have become extremely prolific and have needed more of our attention than ever before. Because of this, we had to make the hard decision to focus on our original business, the honey bees.
From our family to yours, we wish you all the best in these uncertain times.
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Vic, Denise, Kirsten, and Julia
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P.s. We know many of you are disappointed. Please keep in mind that Sauvie Island offers several other wonderful blueberry picking opportunities. We hope you will continue to support our fellow farmers here. We recommend that you try:
-Columbia Farms,
-The Pumpkin Patch
-Sauvie Island Farms
-Topaz Farms (formerly Kruger’s)
-Anne Jones also known as Sauvie Island Blueberry Farm.
-Bella Organic Farm
4 Comments
michelle duguma
6/30/2020 06:57:42 am

So sad to see you no longer are open for blueberries. Our family loved coming out to your farm. Could you please tell me what variety was the crop just behind your house? They were so wonderful. Thank you
Michelle

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Rachel Lindsey
6/30/2020 11:02:07 am

So bummed to hear. We’ve tried several other farms and decided to keep coming back to Bluebee! your blueberries specifically the variety in the far lower patch by the side of the house. I can’t recall the name but the sweetest ones we’ve found! Would love to know what you’ll do will the blueberries! Would you offer private picking, sell any plants or if your crop will be available for purchase somewhere? I would love to further support your local farm. Thank you, Rachel

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Alisa
7/1/2020 09:50:12 am

Congrats on expanding your honey bee adventures. You will be missed!

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Ekatrina
7/1/2020 05:05:46 pm

I am sad to see the blueberry side of your business close as well. Please contact me if you are at all interested in selling any of your Legacy blueberry bushes. They are the best! And, I believe the variety the other commenters were asking about -- the ones in the lower field behind the house that fruited a little later in the season. Our family has picked berries on your property for almost 10 years, with my mom making a special trip from Alaska every summer especially for those Legacy berries. We will miss that tradition, but wish you the best.

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