Luminous Blooms & Gardens recently purchased a twenty acre blueberry farm in Bangor, Michigan. Currently there are 13 acres of two different types of blueberries on the farm: Elliot and Jersey. Alongside the blueberries we will planting flowers and vegetables and fruit trees as well as beekeeping and raising chickens. This season we offered blueberry foliage to our florists across the USA, lots of blueberries to local customers and flowers to orders placed in our hometown of Highland Park, Illinois. We used no spray method, meaning we spray no pesticides including not spraying organic sprays on our blueberry bushes.
Nurturing Nature
Spraying pesticides and fungicides has become the norm around these grounds in Michigan. So much that the Jersey variety of blueberries are known to have gall wasp, a pest that is destroying the berries.
The next few years we will be nurturing the farm back to the way it was intended to be: a balanced eco system with healthy flowers, animals and environment.
We will approach the farm using "regenerative" farming techniques and never spray with chemicals. Doing so, we can harvest fresh healthy blueberries. Regenerative farming focuses on the health of the soil. Healthy soil is the key to successful farming.
You can read more about our journey in our blog.
Because It's Better to Give
Our goal is to be able to support communities around us by restoring our blueberry farm. We are passionate about serving our community and want our farm to be able to give to those around.
This year we offered free u-pick to our community and we continue to provide support and the "left hand does not know what the right hand does."