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Cranberry Harvest ’09

October 1, 2009 By Carole

I have worked here in Cranberry Country for 10 years and this is the first year I’ve actually gotten to photograph a cranberry harvest in progress.  It didn’t happen by accident, either.  My co-worker, Donna, gave me a heads up so on the way home from work yesterday Dale and I took the scenic route.  We were not disappointed.

cranberry bog wide shot

These bogs are wet harvested, which basically means that they flood the bog with water.

cranberry combine machines

Use these machines to free the cranberries from the vines.

cranberry harvest bog edge

And then gather up the cranberries with these floating rubber thingies.

cranberries in the water

Those are technical cranberry harvest terms, in case you were wondering.

cranberry harvest wide shot

Okay, I may not know much about how it actually works but I do know that it makes for excellent photo opportunities.  And I also know that cranberries that are wet harvested are used for juice and sauce.

cranberries floating

Do you know what that means?  It means that you’ll think about this post the next time you buy a bottle of cranberry juice!

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  1. Julie says

    October 1, 2009 at 7:00 am

    Those are some awesome photos! I’m also excited that this means there’ll be fresh berries at the market any day now so I can make pumpkin bread with walnuts and cranberries. Yay!

  2. gale (she shoots sheep shots) says

    October 1, 2009 at 7:02 am

    Love these. What a subject.

  3. Manise says

    October 1, 2009 at 7:03 am

    Great photos and harvest in progress! Love the red color against the green.

  4. Heather says

    October 1, 2009 at 7:11 am

    …or make cosmos. mmmm…cosmo….

  5. ChristyH says

    October 1, 2009 at 7:15 am

    I have seen cranberry harvesting before and thought it was pretty cool. Did you know that white cranberries are just under ripe cranberries?

  6. Judy says

    October 1, 2009 at 7:16 am

    Great photos and educational as well, I am craving cranberry juice now.

  7. Kelly says

    October 1, 2009 at 7:42 am

    very cool, I’d always wondered how it was done. The only reason I knew they grew in water was because of the ocean spray commercial 🙂

  8. Carol says

    October 1, 2009 at 7:42 am

    Cool! I loved seeing these photos of the harvest. That last photo is great with the red & green stripes and shot of blue. Can I get a 5×7?

  9. Kathy says

    October 1, 2009 at 7:52 am

    But what about the cranberries in bags? I thought they were wet harvested too.

  10. Estella says

    October 1, 2009 at 7:56 am

    Gorgeous photos! Thanks for sharing.

  11. Wool Winder says

    October 1, 2009 at 8:04 am

    Very interesting. I’m glad you were there to photograph the process and share it with us.

  12. Judy says

    October 1, 2009 at 8:19 am

    what a color, huh? love to see it.

  13. Kathy says

    October 1, 2009 at 8:20 am

    Carole, those are beautiful pictures. It is so nice to live in New England isn’t it!

  14. margene says

    October 1, 2009 at 8:24 am

    That is quite a process and your photos are so informative. For some reason I think of you when I think of cranberries. Must be because of where you live.

  15. Joy says

    October 1, 2009 at 8:44 am

    Great photos! Thanks for sharing something I’ll probably never see in person. Love the colors 🙂

  16. jill says

    October 1, 2009 at 8:44 am

    Thanks for the cranberry lesson. Such an interesting fruit. And so very pretty in whatever is served with them.

  17. Robby says

    October 1, 2009 at 8:54 am

    Very interesting, and with such nice photos. Just last weekend the “When do the cranberries come?” discussion began. I think I read that those ‘plastic things’ are called ‘booms’. Whatever. Now, I’m going to have to add cranberry juice to the grocery list.

  18. Tammy says

    October 1, 2009 at 8:56 am

    I was having my morning craisins as I read you post! But they’re “dried” so they must not have been wet-harvested – right? Hmmmm…. or maybe along the lines of the white cranberries being underripe red ones, the dried ones are just very old?…

  19. Patty says

    October 1, 2009 at 9:23 am

    I spent my summers in Wareham Carole and this was a part of every fall. Thanks for the memories…you should see the snakes in those bogs! 🙂 We would pick weeds for $2.00 and hour and then go to Lincoln Park for our big summer day out…Woo Hoo!

  20. Kathode Ray Tube says

    October 1, 2009 at 9:39 am

    Thanks for the great photos! Now I want to knit something cranberry colored!

  21. JessaLu says

    October 1, 2009 at 9:50 am

    Lovely pictures!

    …I just saw Patty’s comment…snakes?! yeesh

  22. blogless sharon says

    October 1, 2009 at 10:08 am

    absolutely beautiful. Fall has definitely arrived

  23. Hillary says

    October 1, 2009 at 10:13 am

    Mmmmm cranberry juice, and cranberry sauce, and dried cranberries in just about anything. Suddenly I am very hungry and it’s nowhere near lunch time. Great pictures!

  24. Jo-Ann Coles says

    October 1, 2009 at 10:31 am

    Fall has definitely come to New England! Cranberries that you buy in a bag are ‘dry-harvested’ … which means that they are picked by hand. Back-breaking work, to be sure. I’ve seen both kinds of harvests, and both are fascinating 🙂 If anyone has time, Ocean Spray has quite the visitor center, definitely worth the visit.

  25. Teyani says

    October 1, 2009 at 10:47 am

    what an incredibly cool process – can you imagine being the person(s) who thought of doing that?!
    and great photos.
    I had no idea.

  26. Cookie says

    October 1, 2009 at 11:21 am

    Amazing photos!

    Dirty Jobs did an episode about wet harvesting cranberries. Very interesting how it all happens.

  27. elizabeth says

    October 1, 2009 at 11:29 am

    That looks like fun! Maybe I should add “cranberry farmer” to my list of things I’d like to do…

  28. inglesidebelle says

    October 1, 2009 at 11:34 am

    I grew up in cranberry country (although not in MA, but in N. Wisconsin). Ingenious how they harvest, isn’t it?

    There’s a fun children’s book called Cranberry Thanksgiving that is set in your area of Massachusetts.

  29. Doris says

    October 1, 2009 at 12:19 pm

    Love your pictures…I’ve seen it on TV, but I liked your terminology better ; ) ! And I absolutely loved your comment at Norma’s…couldn’t have said it better.

  30. Nora says

    October 1, 2009 at 12:27 pm

    Very cool! Northern Wisconsin is Cranberry Country, too.

    I laughed so hard at your comment at Norma’s. EXACTLY!

  31. stephie says

    October 1, 2009 at 12:41 pm

    Beautiful. I love your pictures.

  32. Trista says

    October 1, 2009 at 1:23 pm

    I could see a skein of sock yarn named “cranberry harvest”, couldn’t you? Everything goes back to knitting!

  33. Sara says

    October 1, 2009 at 2:17 pm

    Now I would have loved to see that! You have such fun – and, yes, I will think about that when I drink my cranberry juice…

  34. Martha says

    October 1, 2009 at 3:19 pm

    I love seeing the cranberry harvest. So colorful and RED, one of my favorite colors.

  35. Carrie K says

    October 1, 2009 at 3:42 pm

    That’s exactly what this means. And dang, it’s just beautiful.

  36. Birdsong says

    October 1, 2009 at 3:50 pm

    I have always wanted to visit cranberry bogs… thanks for taking all of these photos, and explaining the process in technical terms:)

  37. Vicki says

    October 1, 2009 at 4:19 pm

    This is wonderful — love all the colors in these photos. I love cranberries, too! ; )

  38. Gail H. says

    October 1, 2009 at 11:20 pm

    I’m amazed at how many millions of tiny cranberries there must be to make up such large swaths of red!

  39. Brenda says

    October 1, 2009 at 11:40 pm

    Great photos! I love the look of the bogs when they’re flooded.

  40. Knitnana says

    October 2, 2009 at 9:03 am

    Thank you! I will enjoy thinking of those photos as I drink my morning glass…
    🙂

  41. kathy b says

    October 2, 2009 at 6:36 pm

    We love us some cranberries . We love the northwoods of Wisconsin for their cranberries too. Cranberry scones…….Fireman’s favorite! Cranberries dried, in salads. Cranberry spritzers!

  42. Kathleen says

    October 4, 2009 at 8:19 am

    Thanks for sharing these, Carole. We love cranberries at our house. The colors are beautiful and very fall-like.

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