If you like blueberries then the 30th Annual Montrose Blueberry Festival is the place to be this weekend. It features almost everything blueberry.
If you are craving pizza the festival has a flavor you probably have never tried.
"People have their choice of plain or blueberry and we sell quite a bit of blueberry pizza," said volunteer Rex Catlin. That's right. Blueberries smashed onto a hot slice of regular pizza. It may sound gross but it's actually very popular. "This, I think, is our eighth year so the demands for blueberry pizza keep getting higher and higher!"
If blueberry pizza isn't quite your thing but you still want to try something a little different the Montrose Area High School band is selling blueberry shortcake.
"It's a form of a biscuit. Cut in half, put in a bowl, put syrup on top. It's real good and on top you put whip cream. This is the best part," said band mom Joanna Ruseski.
Of course there are always the classics like blueberry muffins but even those have their own Montrose twist.
"There's some with crumbs, some without crumbs, lemon blueberry ones. Everyone does their own different version. They're all blueberry but as you can see they're all different. We get a good response," said volunteer Merry Logue.
For those who want to take a bit of the festival home with them or perhaps make their own blueberry inventions, you can buy blueberries by the basket.
"We have a lot of blueberries growing around here and have a lot of places where we pick and they donate a lot of them to us and people love them here," said volunteer Biff Andre.
There is even one blueberry that talks.
"I know when the festival started in 1980, it was kind of just a small thing, just a couple of people got together and it's just gotten bigger and better ever since," said Hilary Caws-Elwitt, better known as Newberry the Blueberry.
The blueberry festival continues Saturday from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. on the Montrose Village Green in Susquehanna County.
The proceeds will go to the Susquehanna Public Library.
If you are craving pizza the festival has a flavor you probably have never tried.
"People have their choice of plain or blueberry and we sell quite a bit of blueberry pizza," said volunteer Rex Catlin. That's right. Blueberries smashed onto a hot slice of regular pizza. It may sound gross but it's actually very popular. "This, I think, is our eighth year so the demands for blueberry pizza keep getting higher and higher!"
If blueberry pizza isn't quite your thing but you still want to try something a little different the Montrose Area High School band is selling blueberry shortcake.
"It's a form of a biscuit. Cut in half, put in a bowl, put syrup on top. It's real good and on top you put whip cream. This is the best part," said band mom Joanna Ruseski.
Of course there are always the classics like blueberry muffins but even those have their own Montrose twist.
"There's some with crumbs, some without crumbs, lemon blueberry ones. Everyone does their own different version. They're all blueberry but as you can see they're all different. We get a good response," said volunteer Merry Logue.
For those who want to take a bit of the festival home with them or perhaps make their own blueberry inventions, you can buy blueberries by the basket.
"We have a lot of blueberries growing around here and have a lot of places where we pick and they donate a lot of them to us and people love them here," said volunteer Biff Andre.
There is even one blueberry that talks.
"I know when the festival started in 1980, it was kind of just a small thing, just a couple of people got together and it's just gotten bigger and better ever since," said Hilary Caws-Elwitt, better known as Newberry the Blueberry.
The blueberry festival continues Saturday from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. on the Montrose Village Green in Susquehanna County.
The proceeds will go to the Susquehanna Public Library.
