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Berries & water

The fields are divided into bogs, which are surrounded by narrow ditches used for irrigating that bog. We watched them harvesting by wet method, They flood the field, which floats the plants off the ground, and also meant they were going to use the cranberries for juice or canned jelly, or tea, or lotion, or one of the hundreds of things they do with cranberries~~something other than whole dehydrated berries, because this method damages the berries, but it is a quicker method of harvesting. The dry method is more manual.
Cranberry field

September 20th 2007
Today we watched cranberries being harvested. (Oregon is one of the largest producers of cranberries, and that’s the second industry on the peninsula, with tourism being first.) We went through the museum (and gift store~~there’s always a gift store!) and learned the processes, and then walked out to the field to see the growing stages, which was all very interesting, BUT we found a cranber ... read more
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