Vosges: blueberry picking is in full swing

In the Vosges, it is an immutable ritual that takes place every summer: the picking blueberries at his best. To collect these summer fruits, everyone uses a different technique. “Memy technique is to walk, to move around. I only take the beautiful ones I see and my wife, she sits down and presto, she picks up everything around her”slips Patrick, a regular picker with his wife.

For some, picking is a passion, for others it’s a job. To monitor his fifteen seasonal employees, the producer, Bruno Vincent, watches with a smile and tastes the blueberries to see if they meet the satisfactory criteria. “It’s still a slightly different organization, it’s really very early, we usually have everything that is harvesting strawberries, cherries, that’s it. We overlap a little so we also have to know how to find the customers behind”explains Bruno Vincent, who is experiencing a peak in activity during this period.