B&M Blueberry Farms is located in Silsbee, Texas, just north of Beaumont. It was established in 1989 by Kelly McKeehan as a way to diversify and develop a new business enterprise for his family and has grown to 22 acres of mature blueberries. He and his wife, Anette, have developed a thriving on-farm marketing program for a wide variety of other fruits and vegetables they grow.

Kelly is a refinery superintendent at the Valero Oil Refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, but has always had a love of the land and growing things. He has won several awards for his soil conservation methods and is a firm believer in the minimalistic use of chemicals to ensure food safety and to protect the local environment. All of his blueberries are drip irrigated and most are hand-picked to give the highest quality fruit with the longest shelf life.

His wife Anette, along with their children help run the farm’s small country store. There are always homemade blueberry preserves and syrup cooking on the stovetop, along with fresh squeezed blueberry lemonade to cool the u-pickers down after a hard morning of harvesting. Visitors come from all over the Beaumont/Houston area to pick enough blueberries to get them through the winter.