Wild Blueberry Meadows

Owners

Murray and Diane Tweedie

Brief history

Murray Tweedie retired as an electrical engineer in 1997 and needed something to do. He started with 7 acres of blueberries as a hobby. Then, he developped 50 acres of what used to be forest land and purchased another 63 acres. A few years later, he bought 288 acres in St-Louis. With a lot of hard work and with the help of his wife Diane and his friend Marcel who has been helping him for 12 years, they cleared the land and started to grow blueberries. This year, he hopes to harvest more than 700 000 lbs of wild blueberries. Murray Tweedie finally realized his lifelong dream to become a farmer.

Description

Murray and Diane Tweedie operate about 500 acres of production. Most of the blueberries go to a processor in PEI. Wild Blueberry Meadows clean the blueberries themselves, sell most of their production domestically, sell their fresh blueberries through the Really Local Harvest Coop and at their booth at the Dieppe Market. They will sell eventually overseas.

Where sold

Dieppe Farmers’ Market, Saturday : 7 am – 1:30 pm