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    I picked the blueberries on Union St., Franklin, Mass.  For those
    who are interested here are the directions:
    
    FROM NORTH
    
    Take 495 South to exit 16 - King Street Exit take the left off the
    ramp onto King St., take the first left  onto Union St and it's
    the 5th house on the left there is a sign at the house.
    
    FROM SOUTH
    
    Take 495 North to exit 16 - King Street Exit take a right off the
    ramp onto King St., take the first left onto Union St and it's the
    5th house on the left - there is a sign at the house.
    
    Blueberry picking is usually on Saturday's only - opens 8AM, bring your own
    bucket.  They weigh the buckets before you start picking and sometimes
    they will assign a row for you pick in.  Last Saturday it was pick
    were you want.
                                                     

    Must be the seepage from the lagoon.  :-)  :-)
    
    No, really, that's all been composted by now.
    
    ed

    .1
    
    did i miss something 

    About 10 years ago all of the waste from the water treatment plant in
    Merrimack was set out to compost in a lagoon off Lawrence Road.  Gaddd,
    the place smelled.  Since then, of course, the whole thing's been
    cleaned out.
    
    But, you say the blueberries are the biggest you've ever seen, ehh???
    
    ed

    
     How much do they charge at Leduc's?

    
    $1.00 per pound

$1 per pound, but both Oscar and Lucille do things like weighing the
bucket and bag, and saying "that's 5 and a quarter pounds, call it five"
... and "that's just over five and a half, call it five."

We picked yesterday, and that's *exactly* how he weighed our two buckets.
They've been doing this as long as we've been picking there, several
years. So, it's a less than a buck a pound this year, all things considered.
Particularly when you consider that I taste the fruit from each bush that
I approach. Can't be too sure, you know   B^)

Plus, Lucille always has new blueberry recipes, which she hands out each
time you go. Yesterday the sheet had three recipes, headed by Blueberry
Buckle. Nancy made it last night and it was super! If you go there for
the first time, be sure to tell them, as the maintain a mailing list, to
advise their customers when the crop is ready.

We usually go several times when the berries are in.

Art

    What are the hours?  Particularly evenings on weekdays?

    Thurday and Friday evening and Saturday and Sunday days
    
    

    A few weeks back my wife and I went to Wellington State Park, on Newfound
    Lake in NH, to spend a relaxing day.  By the time we went home we had
    picked 4+ quarts of wild blueberries!  The little (and in my opinion the 
    most flavorful) kind.  They were everywhere throughout the park.  I 
    remember going there as a kid and picking tons of them with my siblings.  
    But the last few years I had been the bushes were all picked over. 
    I never expected to find the bushes so full this far into the season.
    Needless to say my freezer is now well stocked with wild NH
    blueberries.  

    .7  On Saturday/Sunday the hourse are 7:00am til Noon.

    Does anyone know of a place in the fitchburg area where we can pick
    blueberries?  
    
    I'm also looking for anyone who knows where I can find BLACKberries. 
    
    Holly
    

    
    	Carlson Orchards in Harvard, MA has blueberry picking from 9AM to
    	1PM each day, if that is close enough to you...
    
    	-Erik

    very sorry.. I forgot to mention that I'm in Fitchburg, MA.  Willing to
    travel a little ways.  Especially for blackberries.
    
    Holly