Plan to cut food waste will send Maine blueberries to food banks

ASSOCIATED PRESS • November 24, 2021

A Maine nonprofit group is working with blueberry farmers to cut down food waste and provide fruit to food pantries in the state. Healthy Acadia, based in Ellsworth, will work with the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry to prepare family-sized packages of frozen wild blueberries using berries donated by Down East Maine farms.