We visited some cranberry bogs in Plymouth County during harvest season. This one is in Wareham, but most of the other pictures are from Plymouth. |
Cranberries were being cultivated by the Narragansett people long before European colonization. They called them sasemineash, and used them for both dye and pemmican. |
Plymouth and the town's of Plymouth County are chock full of cranberry bogs. I don't have the numbers handy, but Carver and Middleboro may have the most per capita. |
Ocean Spray was founded in Massachusetts, based on a giant bog in Hanson. |
White berries are sold separately, after they divvy up the colors. |
European colonists often called them Bearberries, as bears would fatten upon them just before hibernating. |
October is generally harvest season for cranberry farmers. The harvest can be early/late/mid October, depending on when the frosts come. |
If you poured enough milk in there and floated a gang of blueberries in the upper left hand corner, you could make a pretty cool Old Glory. |
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