Maine’s coveted crop of wild blueberries are trickling into the markets now.  On my way home from North Haven to Portland I stopped at my favorite farm store, Beth’s Farm Market on Western Road in Warren. She’s generally the first with many crops, her indefatigable green thumb giving a magical boost to most everything she grows.  There, in the front of the store, were boxes of Beth’s wild blueberries.  The accompanying sign said that they were early berries and needed to be picked over carefully to remove any green or unripe berries.

blueberries in strainer

With my early crop of berries in hand and my recent stay on North Haven I turned to my file folder of pie recipes to make a recipe called North Haven Blueberry Pie.  It was contained in an articled in the New York Times by Camden based cookbook author and food writer, Nancy Harmon Jenkins, and published in August of 2008.

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