Less than half a century after a few Georgia farmers desperate to make up for lost tobacco income took a flier on blueberries, the crop is surging across the state. Georgia’s lately surpassed perennial fruit powerhouse California, and sprinted past Michigan, which led the nation in blueberry production for generations. The Southern shift is juicy PR fodder for North America’s biggest berry grower, which in a recent press release teased, “The peach state is feeling blue!”
(In terms of quality and quantity, South Carolina is the region’s reigning peach state, but “the state next to the peach state” admittedly doesn’t have the same ring to it.)
