Blueberries are a popular fruit grown around the world. Production has tripled in the past 10 years, says NPR in a story from Whitesbog, in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, where the blueberry was “brought in from the wild” a century ago. The settlement is named for the Whites, the family that owned the land; Elizabeth White was intrigued by a USDA report in 1910 that said blueberries needed acidic soils. She invited the USDA to carry out blueberry research on the family farm and she recruited her neighbors to find flourishing specimens growing in wild in the barrens. USDA botanist Frederick Coville took cuttings from those plants and cross-bred others. In 1916, White and Coville “had a totally different kind of blueberry harvest to sell. Large berries that all looked and tasted the same. The blueberry had been tamed,” says NPR. “A new business was born.”