DiMeo's know blueberries. The DiMeo blueberry farming family, now in its 4th generation, owns and operates several of the largest blueberry farms in the world, that (with all farms owned by all DiMeo family members combined) total over 1000 acres of blueberry farms and blueberry plant nurseries in "the blueberry capital of the world" Hammonton, New Jersey. The original DiMeo family fruit farms were established around 1895 by Michael DiMeo, father of Anthony DiMeo, Sr., who immigrated from (Abruzzo) Sulmona, Italy with nothing more than $50 dollars in his pocket and the clothes on his back. His sons, Frank DiMeo, Anthony DiMeo, Sr., Michael DiMeo, Jr., and William DiMeo worked 18 hour days for decades to plant the DiMeo family blueberry farms. Watch 3rd generation farmer Michael DiMeo, Jr. operate one of the BEI International blueberry picking machines during blueberry picking season. These machines reduce farmer costs to about .50 cents per crate vs. paying blueberry pickers $4.00 for every 12 pint crate:

DiMeo Fruit Farms & Berry Plant Nursery is a premier grower of ultra-premium blueberries, blueberry plants, large mature blueberry bushes and other Non-GMO organic berry plants. We will sell you the same blueberry bushes as professional blueberry growers. Our certified virus and disease tested "ultra-heavy bearing" blueberry plants are bigger, healthier and maintained better prior to shipping than any others. That's why our vigorous DiMeo blueberry plants will grow much faster, establish good root systems quicker and bear larger blueberries faster. Our DiMeo farming family has been growing blueberry plants for over 100 years and four generations! We sell direct to private home gardeners "home growers", edible landscapers, retail stores, berry wineries and commercial blueberry growers all over America. No blueberry plant order is too big or too small for DiMeo Fruit Farms. Give us a call now: (609) 561-5905 as we prefer a quick phone call instead of all the e-mails during this busy time of year. Thank you for the many years of repeat business. As a matter of fact, our family has been around for so many years that they have blueberry fields over 50 years old. Watch video of 2nd generation farmer Michael DiMeo, Sr. replanting old DiMeo blueberry bushes that he planted over 50 years ago. Mr. DiMeo decided to start replanting blueberries during the very end of Summer 2011 and it was a hot day: 

DiMeo Blueberry Farm Consulting Services

With four generations of DiMeo blueberry farming experience, you will be in the right hands as we personally teach you how to start your own blueberry farm. Our berry plant customers drive in (and fly in) from all over the world, not just to see our DiMeo operation, but to also learn how to grow blueberries and get up and running quickly. We take our valued customers carefully through the steps from A to Z. Of course we do not charge our blueberry plant customers, but if you are just looking for professional consulting, the DiMeo's are here for you. Our various member of the DiMeo family are often buying new blueberry farm land for sale. Watch the below video as this will be one of our new pick your own blueberry farms. Let the DiMeo's teach you how to start a blueberry farm. We will teach you from step one, farm land clearing and blueberry soil preperation:

Starting A Blueberry Farm & Land Selection

As a DiMeo berry plant customer, we will guide you through proper blueberry farm land selection and teach you exactly what to look for before you purchase new blueberry land. We can even send our DiMeo farmers out to consult with you on-site and guide you through each step of the blueberry planting process. With DiMeo, you are in good hands! Just this year, we purchased a new 20 acre old farm property that we cleared for staring a new pick your own blueberry farm to service our growing customer base. Let DiMeo teach you, step by step. Watch the below video as this is how it all begins when our DiMeo blueberry farming family buys a new farm property to be converted into high-production pick your own blueberry fields:

OUR AMERICAN FARMING STORYDiMeo Family Farms Humble Beginnings

The various DiMeo family farms can all trace their roots back to around 1895 when then Italian immigrant Michael DiMeo came over from (Abruzzo) Sulmona, Italy. He and his two brothers, Salvatore DiMeo and Nicholas DiMeo originally settled in Providence, Rhode Island. After starting DiMeo Farms along with his brothers in the Providence region, he decided to go in search of better farm land that was higher quality without as many rocks. He took a simple job on the Pennsylvania Railroad to earn the money to travel and one day he discovered Hammonton, New Jersey. He liked the small town of Hammonton and it's central location to New York City, Philadelphia and Atlantic City, but most of all, he liked the soil in Hammonton.

Michael DiMeo then purchased about 35 acres of farm land in Hammonton. He started the now massive DiMeo family farming operation with just a small blueberry patch behind his farm house and worked out of a little self-made wooden barn. The original DiMeo Farms raised blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, blackberries, black diamonds, butternut squash, apples, peaches, pumpkins and even sweet potatoes. Mr. DiMeo eventually built it into a much larger family farm as the DiMeo's invested in more and more farm land during the depths of The Great Depression. Photoed below are 2nd generation farmer Anthony DiMeo, Sr. (far right laying on the board) and his farm workers planting old fashioned white yams in hotbeds back in the 1950s. They were making potato plants out of secondary potatoes because they couldn't afford to buy the potato plants. The DiMeo's have always been experts at making the best non-GMO plants the old fashioned way. The way our grandfathers did it.

"Our farming heritage is our future." - 2nd Generation Farmer, Michael DiMeo, Sr.

1st Generation Farmer, Michael DiMeo eventually turned the DiMeo family farms over to his sons, Anthony DiMeo, Sr., Michael DiMeo, Jr. and William DiMeo, who slowly converted the entire DiMeo farm operations to exclusively produce blueberries, premium blueberry plants and large mature blueberry bushes.  Anthony DiMeo, Sr. began planting hundreds of acres of premium "ultra-heavy bearing" blueberry plants back in the early 1940s. He started out with only 500 blueberry plants. Over the many decades, Anthony DiMeo, Sr. and his brothers, including Frank DiMeo, Michael DiMeo, Jr., and William DiMeo built an incredible network of successful DiMeo-owned blueberry farms that today grows millions of hardy blueberry plants and (with all members of the DiMeo family and all various DiMeo family-owned farms combined) encompasses over 1000 acres of blueberries in the "blueberry captial of the world" Hammonton, New Jersey.

2nd Generation Farmer Anthony DiMeo, Sr. "A Berry Farming Legend"

2nd generation farmer Anthony DiMeo, Sr. retired when he was 86 years-old but still worked hard on the family berry farm until he was almost 90. He dedicated his entire life to passionately working the family fruit farms as a proud American farmer. His entire life was the farm. He traveled very little but accomplished so much as he grew the family farms with every day of hard work and sacrifice. He depended on the farm to provide for the entire family, and it always did, and still does to this day. His idea of farming berries was quite simple: grow the finest berries including blueberries and blueberry plants and sell at a fair price. Below is a 1950s photo of an old fashioned blueberry packing line with antique wooden vintage blueberry crates (like the ones for sale at our DiMeo operation) and the local high school girls packing blueberries during the summer blueberry season. Back then, there was no Facebook, cell phones or texting, but just hard work which built character and taught the value of a hard days work on a family owned farm:

The DiMeo berry farming family was often active in charity fruit farm auctions. They often gave fresh berreis and "fruits of their labor" to the less fortunate. Even back in the 1960s, when then the DiMeo's planted just a 20 acre field of pick your own strawberries, 2nd generation farmer Anthony DiMeo, Sr. (shown standing second from left), along with another local berry farmer, auctioned off their first picked berry crates of the season to benefit a children's charity as shown here in this old farmer's auction block photo:

       

2nd generation farmer Anthony DiMeo, Sr. ran one of the several DiMeo family berry farms for over 60 years. He is also past-president of the Cooperative Fruit Auction Association. He and his wife of 62 years, Mildred DiMeo, have three children and many grandchildren. The DiMeo farming family has quite impressive longevity, as Anthony DiMeo Sr's mother Nancy DiMeo lived until she was 98 years-old. His aunt (Nancy DiMeo's sister Concetta Mancini) lived until she was 102 years-old. His older brother Joseph DiMeo, Sr. who was also born and raised on the DiMeo family farm, turned 100 years old. Watch as the entire DiMeo family celelebrated Joseph DiMeo's 100th birthday together in February 2011:

The DiMeo berry farming family trusts their impressive DiMeo longevity to healthy balanced living on the family berry farms. Eating only fresh home grown blueberries and other berries that are safe as well as pesticide free and chemical free berries from Non-GMO berry plants like the DiMeo family grows. Getting away from GMO foods is a big first step in the right direction. Growing your own fresh fruits and berries is knowing your food -- and knowing your very best berry farmer -- you!

The Future of Farming with DiMeo Fruit Farms

"New Generation Farmers with Old Generation Values"

The grandchildren of Mr. & Mrs. Anthony DiMeo, Sr., including Anthony DiMeo III make up the 4th generation of the DiMeo blueberry farming family in "the blueberry capital of the world" Hammonton, New Jersey. Several of the grandchildren intend to continue their grandfathers, and great-grandfathers passion for blueberry farming in America and production of high-quality, ultra-premium blueberries, blueberry plants, large mature blueberry bushes and non-GMO blueberry plant nursery. The blueberry farming legacy in the DiMeo family has passed down from generation to generation. The 4th generation patriarchs of the DiMeo family, "America's first family of blueberries", that continue both the family blueberry farming tradition and legacy in now modern times. WATCH the below DiMeo video where 2nd generation expert blueberry farmer Michael DiMeo, Sr. is working with 4th generation DiMeo farmer to prepare a blueberry plant order for one of our repeat DiMeo wholsale blueberry plant customers:

Sometimes when our "home grower" berry plant customers drive out to tour our operation and buy blueberry plants direct from DiMeo Fruit Farms & Berry Plant Nurseries, they get the opportunity to take a quick tour of one of the DiMeo family blueberry (IBF) packing houses. Here are two of our DiMeo berry plant customers (mother and daugher) that drove down from upsate New York to tour our berry plant nurseries and buy over 50 bearing-size blueberry plants for their own organic blueberry patch. During their tour, they got a close look at the fresh blueberries on one of the IBF inspection belts:

"We hope to help you discover sustainable blueberry and other "super berry farming" including blueberry growing tips, nostalgic berry farm antiques, safe home-grown farming techniques and other inspiring ways to celebrate the farm spirit at your home."

"Farming blueberries and growing the best blueberry plants with my grandfather is something I grew up with. I always loved balancing my city life with some extra hard work on the farm."   - 4th Generation Farmer Anthony DiMeo III, DiMeo Fruit Farms

 

"Lessons from the DiMeo Farm" newspaper article by 4th Generation Blueberry Farmer Anthony DiMeo III of DiMeo Fruit Farms & Berry Plant Nurseries

"We will always cultivate exceptional, Non-GMO ultra premium blueberry plants, long-term customer relationships and innovative solutions to optimize the success of our berry plant customers in the blueberry field, home berry garden, or backyard berry garden."

- DiMeo Family, DiMeo Fruit Farms & Berry Plant Nurseries