Rediscovering the Chehalem blackberry

Local man is helping the virtually unknown Marionberry ancestor make a small comeback to commercial production

Photo By: Gary AllenJam man -
Newberg resident Paul Wiley is seeking to preserve the Chehalem blackberry and its story with his Chehalem-Marionberry jam, grown in Newberg and canned at local packing company Berry Noir.
   As in the countless millennia before human domestication, commercially developed crops go through a natural selection of sorts.



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