Source: Derek Lacey, BLUERIDGE NOW, 7/10/16


North Carolina in the summertime is home to multitudes of wild blackberries ripening on spindly, thorny bushes along shrubby fence lines and roadways, but in recent years, the berries have crept into commercial growing operations.
Blackberries first started to be seriously commercially grown in Henderson County around 2010…

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