# @businessinsider on YouTube

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- **Original URL:** https://youtube.com/watch?v=w8GIaxQ54mk
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- **Posted:** 2026-05-24T13:00:28.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Business Insider (@BusinessInsider) — https://gondola.cc/BusinessInsider

## Caption

Blueberries have grown wild in Maine for 10,000 years. These aren't your typical grocery store blueberries. They're smaller, sweeter, and healthier. They're the backbone of a valuable industry in Maine, especially for Indigenous groups who've returned for generations to hand-harvest the fields. But in 2025, wild blueberry farmers in Maine experienced one of the worst seasons this decade, losing $28 million. So what happened? And how are farmers, processors, and scientists racing to save their ancestral wild blueberry?

You can see more of David Stess' work at: https://www.instagram.com/davidstess?igsh=N2szYWcydGJqcTNo

Additional Production from Kashif Khan Productions

00:00 - Intro 
00:28 - Wild v. Bred Blueberries
02:18 - Processing at Wyman's
03:56 - Growing Wild Blueberries
05:02 - Han Harvesting: A Dying Art Form
06:47 - Tariffs On Machine Harvesters
08:02 - Why Maine Farmers Are Losing Millions
09:26 - Inside A Passamaquoddy Harvesting Campsite
11:53 - Wild Blueberries Are Sacred To Wabanki
13:08 - A Photographer Archives the Barrens for 30 years
15:57 - How Tribal Blueberry Land Was Stolen
18:12 - Wyman's Diversifying
18:25 - Scientists Fighting For Wild Blueberries
19:53 - Irrigation Could Save Wild Blueberries
22:08 - Emergency Funding
22:35 - A Superfood On The Rise
23:21 - Credits

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Why Maine's Blueberry Farmers Are Losing Millions | Big Business | Business Insider

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