Myself and a friend pick our own cranberries every year - gallons of them, and we give quite a few bags away to family and friends. It's the best berry for picking, large, plentiful, no insects biting, and usually a wonderful view of the sea while you crouch back of a dune. Best done at low tide, when there is less water in the boggy spots, where the biggest berries always hide.

We say we have to 'get our cranberry eyes on' as we begin picking, because at first you might think there are no berries, then suddenly you see that there are hundreds of them right under your hand.