Do you know that New Jersey is one of the largest harverster of cranberries? The largest one is Wisconsin followed by Massachusetts.
When I heard there is a cranberry harvest in one of the state parks in South Jersey, I thought I should check it out. I don't know anything about cranberries besides seeing this on juice drinks and Thanksgiving dinners.
The harvest wasn't much of a festival, it is more of watching the farmers at work.
The bogs were flooded out to gather all the fruits. This procedure is called wet harvesting which is more efficient than dry harvesting were the fruit is picked by hand.
When I heard there is a cranberry harvest in one of the state parks in South Jersey, I thought I should check it out. I don't know anything about cranberries besides seeing this on juice drinks and Thanksgiving dinners.
The harvest wasn't much of a festival, it is more of watching the farmers at work.
Farmers on wet harvesting the cranberries.
The bogs were flooded out to gather all the fruits. This procedure is called wet harvesting which is more efficient than dry harvesting were the fruit is picked by hand.
The magnificent cranberries.
Photos are taken on Double Trouble State Park in New Jersey. Cranberry harvesting is done during early fall around mid-October. It is free and open to the public.
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