1. APHuG Question of the Day
What continent are blueberries indigenous to?
Bonus: Which are the top 5 blueberry producing states in the U.S.?

2. QOTD Tie-in: Blueberries
Indigenous to North America
Native Americans dried ‘starberries’ in the sun, added them whole to soups, stews and meat, and crushed them into a powder to use on meat as a preservative. Sautauthig – blueberry pudding
Cultivation in early 1900s in New Jersey
Grown in North America April - October, grown in South America November - March. Transport costs in winter cause price increase.
Trademarking of agricultural product
health benefits, smoothie culture

3. 1st “Law” of Geography
1st - “Everything is related to everything else but near things are more related than distant things” – Waldo Tobler (distance decay) Time-space compression’s effects on distance decay – David Harvey (pg textbook)
How far would you all walk?

4. 2nd “Law” of Geography
2nd - the “Why of Where” Why, where, and how do we get blueberries from Chile in the Winter?
Chile’s advanced Mediterranean wine and fruit industry free market reforms under A. Pinochet (and brutal repression of dissenters) free trade partnerships and linkage to global markets
- favorable business climate, strongest sovereign bond rating in South America