$3M in research funds could foster ‘wild blueberry industry of the future’
by Sarah Craighead Dedmon
The name for Jonesboro’s Blueberry Hill Farm research station was chosen by a contest for schoolchildren in the 1940s, beating out contenders like Blue Heaven, Weary Acres, Maggot’s End, and Odd Way Farm. But the impetus for the farm’s creation has its roots in a less happy event.