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Public told to help themselves after Perthshire farmer decided not to send blueberry crop to market

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A genetic advance has put the nail in the coffin for Perthshire -grown blueberries with a Blairgowrie farmer deciding not to harvest his 300 tonne crop or the ‘super food’ commercially ever again.

Melanie and Peter Thomson have had to shut down their 25-hectare blueberry operation due to both the shortage of pickers in Scotland and cheaper imports coming in from Peru and South Africa.At the weekend they raised £4,000 for charity by inviting the public to take as many berries as they could carry in exchange for a donation.

They have opened their West Haugh Farm near Blairgowrie several times, giving away the unpicked harvest which they calculated would cost more to pick, chill and transport than it would fetch in the supermarket.

The family has been growing berries at West Haugh Farm at Ashgrove Road in Rattray and at another property, Westfield Farm, for more than 100 years, starting out with raspberries and strawberries before diversifying in recent years to blueberries and cherries.

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