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Elizabeth Coleman White

The Woman Who Cultivated a Billion-Dollar Industry

March 15, 2012 Charles Parrott, Acting Deputy Administrator, AMS Fruit and Vegetable Program

A Whitesbog, NJ, native born in 1871, Elizabeth Coleman White spent her childhood summers helping out on her parents' cranberry farm in the Pine Barrens. While harvesting cranberries, she often wondered if the wild blueberries sprinkled on her parents' farm could be cultivated like the cranberries...

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