Some blueberry fields stretch as far as the eye can see. Cultivated blueberry bushes can grow as high as 12 feet tall. How much taller is that than your height?

Blueberries grow in clusters on bushes.

Each blueberry grows from a different white blossom on the bush. Blossoms must be pollinated by bees. Blueberry growers can tell how good their crop will be by counting the blossoms.

Blueberries are also picked by big machines called harvesters that move slowly along the rows of blueberry bushes, gently shaking off the ripe berries. Most machine-harvested blueberries are frozen.

The blueberries are gathered in large bins and transported by truck or tractor from the field to the processing plant.

At the plant, the blueberries are placed on moving conveyor belts.

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