strawberry plants for another year’s picking. Move over strawberries, it’s time for blueberries. For 20 years, the Bullard family has harvested mounds of fresh berries from plants so large they look more like trees than bushes. Mae Bullard kept the tradition going at Stedman Blueberry
Farm even after her husband died. The community wouldn’t have it any other way. Bullard was eating at a local restaurant not long ago when someone called out, “There’s my blueberry lady!” “It’s the people,” Bullard says.
“They’ve brought their children and grandchildren.”
And Bullard has passed the tradition
on to her daughter and grandchildren. “We want people to get back to knowing where their food comes from,” she says. There’s no better way to do that than to pick your own berries. The best part? Free samples as you
pluck.CV
20 | Food & Wine • 2010
