The story of Poimu berry pickers goes back to around 2010, when I bought my first aluminium basket berry picker from Veikko Määttä, a craftsman from Kuhmo. The picker’s dialectal name, Marja-Öhrä, refers to greedy picking. Määttä manufactured and sold his own berry pickers for decades, right up to the early 2020s, to various parts…

