What To Do In Maine? Blueberry Picking and Pancakes!

By Jordyn Birmingham ’24 and Niña Ramores ’24
In the next episode of their adventure series "What to do in Maine?" rising sophomores Niña Ramores and Jordyn Birmingham discover the wild blueberry patch right around the corner from campus. And they make blueberry pancakes (while discussing a few Bowdoin matters).

Mid-July to August in Maine is wild blueberry season, when some Mainers enlist every member of their family, from toddler to senior citizen, to head out to a favorite berry spot and restock their stores of the tiny, sweet berry.

On a recent sunny day in Brunswick, Birmingham and Ramores joined a few of these families at Crystal Spring Farm's wild blueberry barrens in Brunswick. While the farm harvests berries for sale on most of its blueberry acres, it allows the public to pick as many berries as they want—for free—on a twenty-acre patch.

(And check out the duo's recent trip to Old Orchard Beach.)