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Max Robinson worked as a teacher and a lab instructor at an osteopathic school in the heart of West Virginia. What he really wanted to do was run a small farm. What about blueberries, a friend suggested - they're easy. They weren't easy, as Robinson found out, but blueberries it was. That's how White Oak Farm in Renick, W.Va., came to be, home to a pick-your-own blueberry and red raspberry farm. Robinson soon learned it takes ten years to grow the bushes to maturity - and then there's the weather. A killing frost devastated his crop last year and he had to hang drywall to support his family. Yet his 2011 crop was going gangbusters the day I showed up with a video camera to do a Charleston Gazette profile - and the blueberry pickers just kept coming. See the companion article by Douglas Imbrogno in the Life section of the sundaygazettemail.com at: http://wvgazette.com/Life/201107231678 For more on the farm, visit http://whiteoakberryfarm.com