It's backbreaking, hard, hot work. We have fun, but we're glad when it's over. Like any crop, blueberries are subject to weather and other forces of nature. Last year, I was harvesting the field down below, which is on shale and very dry. The berries burned up on the bush.
Bees are also a source of concern.
Two strains of bee mite have caused substantial losses of honey bee hives over the last year and some farmers haven't been able to get their usual allotment of hives. The wild bees help, though they usually mess me up by pollinating things too early. You have to have bees. We were both world travelers before we met, when I was stationed on Cape Cod. It was fun settling down for a while, but we want to travel again.