BLUEBERRY RIDGE FARM

four employees. Our goal was to expand our business, so we designed and built a three story processing facility. Lynn started baking using organic blueberries with her mother's recipes. One day she had an idea of canning the organic blueberries, which would create a tasty sauce from the juices. We found a cannery near the airport, where we could use their equipment and can the blueberries in water. This led to another phase, creating gift boxes, which Gary designed and silkscreened his artwork on these boxes. Each box contained cans of organic blueberries, blueberry jams and... syrups with Bob's Red Mill's oat bran muffin and buttermilk pancake mix. These boxes were advertised in Sunset magazine. We then began experimenting by drying our organic blueberries in a small dryer, which only dried a few pounds per week. In1989 visitors from Japan on tour with the Oregon Department of Agriculture came to visit our farm. They were interested in our organic dried blueberries because we didn't..