Mini Theme: Cranberry Harvest
Oct 24, 2017 23:40:53 #
Cranberry harvest is always a traffic stopper on Cape Cod this time of year. These pics are of a 'wet' harvest down the road from my house last weekend. The ripe cranberry bogs are flooded with a couple of feet of water. Then the bushes are beaten with a ride on beater to knock the berries off the bushes. Within a day or two the berries float to the top of the water . The workers coral the floating berries with long floating booms and draw a sump where they are sucked up into a separator and discharged into trucks. They filled several trucks in a couple of hours on Saturday. 'Wet' harvest cranberries are processed into juice, sauces and jellies. Dry harvest berries are sold as fresh berries.
Comments, feedback, or your own reminiscences always appreciated.
Comments, feedback, or your own reminiscences always appreciated.
Oct 25, 2017 00:20:58 #
mas24
Loc: Southern CA
Those are some really nice photos. Shows how cranberries are harvested. Big sellers during the holidays with our Turkeys during Thanksgiving/Christmas. I mostly buy the canned jellied version. Thanks for sharing.
Oct 25, 2017 03:46:55 #
Oct 25, 2017 07:27:09 #
Oct 25, 2017 07:43:57 #
Excellent shots of a very colorful harvest. Bogs all around me and always enjoy watching the berry gathering.
Oct 25, 2017 09:17:24 #
You captured a different "fall color". I really enjoyed this series.
Oct 25, 2017 10:33:02 #
Oct 25, 2017 18:24:43 #
Thanks for all of the compliments folks. Glad you enjoyed them. It really is a wonderful sight. You should try to see it for yourself sometime.
Oct 25, 2017 18:46:13 #
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Oct 27, 2017 10:21:58 #
Excellent set and the only thing that I had previously seen connected with harvesting was that funny commercial with the two men in the bog drinking the juice! 
Oct 27, 2017 22:32:20 #
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