The severe lack of rain means a big financial hit to operations because farmers can’t rely on the local streams and rivers to flood the bogs for harvest.
Most years, the cranberry harvest in New Jersey is a carnival of colors. Ruby red berries bubble to the surface of cerulean blue bogs framed by the autumn foliage nestled inside the Pine Barrens.
23, as local farmers started flooding their cranberry bogs for harvest. Footage recorded by Joanna Steidle shows a view of the area near Tremont Street and the ongoing work from her drone.
Oddly enough, only 5% of this cranberry harvest is sold as raw cranberries, while all the rest goes into producing frozen cranberries, dried cranberries, juices, and, of course, that classic ...
The A.D. Makepeace Company, North America’s largest cranberry grower, owns this large bog, one of over 1,600 acres of bogs that they harvest. Worker Phavy Or put on his chest-high neoprene ...