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Here are some more cranberry harvest pictures. Sorry for the sideways and upside down pics...I did rotate some but still sideways and upside for most.

The eagles were eating mice, waiting for us to drive by with the beater and scare the mice to make them move.
There are a couple of the elevator / conveyer loading the truck and one of the old Louiville being probed for a sample at the receiving station.
The swirling patternes of different coloured fruit are different varieties mixing when we pull booms through or the wind blows the fruit.

Sweetfeet, you commented before about getting out if the beater breaks down...well we push them to the side and pick themcup with the big excavator. I was lucky here and was pretty close to the edge when a key came out of the shaft / pully so we just reached overand chained it up.

Hope you all enjoy Grant
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Is that the Boston skyline? Daughter and SIL used to live down the coast from there. A lot of small bogs in the area that looked like family operations. We used to visit in the fall but always just after the harvest so I never got to see it. I would guess that OS keeps a tight lid on prices just like Coca Cola does with the grape growers along Lake Erie.
 
You have nice red berrys. It has gotten cold enough to turn them from white to red. Here in South Jersey it has been too warm. The big Chatsworth cranberry festival is next weekend and they are really worryed they won't have berries to sell. Heard on the radio that the jersey product is worth around 30 mill a year. Tomorrow is the Batsto small engine show. I will have my Husqvarna there.
 
Thanks. We were a bit worried about colour too. This field is a couple varieties developed in Jersy down at Rutgers.
I have some other fields at my place on Vancouver island waiting for a bit more colour.
Grant
 
Sorry guys I didn't say where I was.
This is Richmond BC Canada. The opposite side of continent from you guys.
The city in the background is Vancouver.
Grant
 
CBBC,

Beautiful photos. Would be fun to see a cranberry harvest in person... and eat a few right out of the bog. I really like to eat them raw - like grapes (just with a little more kick to 'em).

Next favorite way to eat them is the relish made with raw ground cranberries, ground apple, and ground orange with rind... then just enough sugar to tame the tartness. (Great spread on a turkey sandwich too.)
 
Forgot... I'll have to show these pics to my husband. It'll probably make him think all those years of harvesting beans and corn on dry land were a walk in the park. :)
 
Sweetfeet cranberry relish... we'll need to try that. Maybe get it packaged up with our RTE stuff in the preserve store.

Glad you all liked the pictures. If anyone's ever up this way you're welcome to see what we do.

Thanks Grant
Yellow Point Cranberries
 
I don't know so asking. What is the reason for them to be in water. Do they grow in water or is it just for harvest.
 
Wow Thanx for all the Pix and the tour ,.. but now i just thrist for more info, lol ,.i would bet they require lots of lime and potash ?,,HOW do You Raise this wonderful delicacy? are they grown on dry land most their life and aer flooded at ripening time to a foot deep of water ?,. the vacuum at the grader station is very much like the grain vacuum at our grain grading station ,..
 
Olgentdc and Billy S,
The cranberries grow on dry ground, if they are sitting in any water during the growing season the get weak and die like most all crops. We have laser levelled our fields and 4"drain tile is space every 15-25 feet across the field draining to perimeter ditches. We only drain down 18"-24"

The cranberries like acidic soil - pH 3.5-5.5. We grow in straight peat, or in my case I mulched the peat with 6" of sawdust for the growing medium. In wisc and mass they grow in straight sand.

When we harvest the water is pumped into the fields, moving from field to field as we go. It anywhere from 18-24" deep. Deeper allows for the fruit to pul easier. The better the field level the easier it is to harvest.

This picture of my son is in the field we are harvesting fresh and drypicking... no water.

Next week I'll get more picture of the receiving station and cleaning lines.
Grant
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