Here are photos from way, way back... just for the heck of it. They include photos of the cranberry bogs in Middleboro, Massachusetts which we used to own. Lots of the beach photos are on Cape Cod. They are all small so if you want to see them more clearly most of them can be clicked to enlarge.
Here's a good website with lots of photos about growing cranberries in Massachusetts. Here's a website about how cranberries are grown.
This is the bog in back of our house when it's been flooded. Won't enlarge.
There are several ways used to flood different bogs.
On Cape Cod
From my kayak on Buzzards Bay
This looks like a barn but is called a screen house because
in the old days cranberries were screened (cleaned) there
with special machine designed to bounce them six times. A good berry
bounces six times, bad one fall out of the machine before that and
are thrown away.
Woods Hole
Cape Cod
Our cranberry harvest
The elders were using this picking apparatus when we bought the bogs.
Cranberry harvest on the bogs after we sold them
Sand is used to revitalize the vines in the winter when there's ice on the flooded bogs.
This is called a Crisafolli pump named after the inventor.
Below: Cape Cod
From our house |
Woods Hole |
Little Harbor Beach |
Little Harbor beach |
Harvest on our bogs, this small bog was called Indian Hollow because arrow heads were found there. |
One of our first harvests with the old equipment |
Little Harbor Beach, Wareham
This shows the newer harvesting machine |
This and below are part of our reservoir |
One of our pump motors used to flood a bog
Harvest (taken from our house)
Seagull with a hackysack ball
Waves at Cape Cod National Seashore |
Sunset from our house
Our regular pizza place
Little Harbor Beach, Wareham
Woods Hole
Cape Cod
Cape Cod
Woods Hole
Beach in Wareham
Cape Cod sand dunes |
Woods Hole
Cranberries floating waiting to be corralled and then loaded in touch to be taken to Ocean Spray where they will be made in juice. |
Winter bog with Port-a-potty |
Tim DeMoranville on picking machine |
Buzzards Bay from kayak |
Helicopter fertilizing our bogs
Our bog manager Tim DeMoranville