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31 Oct 02 - 06:55 PM (#815551) Subject: BS: Cranberry harvest From: mg Wow..it is so beautiful here...I can look out my window and the harvest of our research bogs is going on right now..a beautiful blue sky, bright red berries..it usually would be over weeks ago, but the weather has been so dry there hasn't been enough water in the ponds to flood the berries...it has been bitter cold though the last 2 days...hope it hasn't hurt them..they have had frost and ice the last 2 nights..wish you could be here to see it. mg |
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31 Oct 02 - 07:08 PM (#815561) Subject: RE: BS: Cranberry harvest From: katlaughing mary, I wish I could see them, too. Your description really is lovely. Anything like this: please click? The first thing my kids did when they started school after we moved to New England, was walk over, on a field trip, to the school principal's cranberry bog. We'd only been in the east for a couple of weeks and here were these three little Wyoming kids who've never seen so much green and damp, walking on spongy earth, raving about the beautiful red "berries." They were thrilled! Thanks, kat |
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31 Oct 02 - 07:16 PM (#815566) Subject: RE: BS: Cranberry harvest From: GUEST,Walking Eagle I used to drive over to New Jersy to see the cranberry harvest. It was always beautiful. The fall tree colors, blue sky and those beautiful floating red berries. Millions of them! Someone must have written a song about the scene. It's just too inspiring to not have. |
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31 Oct 02 - 07:29 PM (#815570) Subject: RE: BS: Cranberry harvest From: mg someone posted one not long ago and I have one but it is sort of sad because the growers are having a hard time financially. mg p.s. it would look exactly like that except no clouds in the sky for us! |
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31 Oct 02 - 07:40 PM (#815578) Subject: RE: BS: Cranberry harvest From: Sorcha I'm sure it's a beautiful sight, and that is a beautiful pic, kat, but the reason the growers are having a hard time is probably because I hate cranberries in any form! |
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31 Oct 02 - 08:02 PM (#815592) Subject: RE: BS: Cranberry harvest From: gnu I'm hoping to hit a wild cranberry bog this weekend up in Kent County, New Brunswick, eh. Few people know of it and the berries are the finest I've ever tasted. If the locals, that is, the moose, haven't get er stripped yet. I can't eat the cultivated ones after tasting these. Anyone else out there know what I'm talking about ? agree ? disagree ? |
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31 Oct 02 - 10:26 PM (#815658) Subject: RE: BS: Cranberry harvest From: raredance "Cranberry Bogs" song is in the DT with two slightly different lyrics, both credited to the same source, Barney Reynolds of Mather, Wisconsin. Geographical place name "Mather" is correct in one version. The name "Mercer" is used in the other which is not correct. Mather, about 100 northwest of Madison is in a major Wisconsin cranberry growing region. Mercer, on the other hand is way up near the Michigan border, not far from Ironwood. That area was known from mining, then logging, but not agriculture. rich r |
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31 Oct 02 - 10:30 PM (#815659) Subject: RE: BS: Cranberry harvest From: mg I just got "volunteered" to help in the bogs tonight. It was great fun. I helped corall the little berries and then someone comes alone with booms and drags them..like a little cranberry roundup. It was done by the lights from trucks and I sure wish I had a video camera..mg |
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31 Oct 02 - 10:47 PM (#815667) Subject: RE: BS: Cranberry harvest From: open mike why do you capture them at night? so they don't run away?? I was just in wisconsin a while back..missed th harvest, but the country side was getting colorful...have you got the recipe that the NPR susan stanberg.s grandma used for relish?? has fresh raw berries ground up with horseradish and it is yummmmmy=the recipe is usally on the nrp web site this time of year...also there is a kid's book with a cran- berry cookie recipe in it--any one seen that one?? I made some wine out of 'em once the possibilities are endless@!@ never had the wild ones, though. |
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31 Oct 02 - 10:51 PM (#815670) Subject: RE: BS: Cranberry harvest From: mg I think it is probably because so many of the farmers and their wives have day jobs now. But it sure was pretty. And walking home some men who had been there stopped and offered me a ride and said they had just stopped for a huge buck that was right behind me..and I hadn't heard him...plus I turn around frequently when I walk, trying to stay away from cars... mg |
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01 Nov 02 - 08:36 AM (#815873) Subject: RE: BS: Cranberry harvest From: MMario Over Columbus Day weekend I was in Eastern Massachusetts - and each days trip in the car involved driving past innumberable bogs. It was interesting as some were being dry harvested and some were being wet harvested. One bog in particular first day was dry - but obviously full of ripe berries; second day had been flooded; third day was covered with floating cranberries and on the fourth day was bare water. Fascinating! |
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01 Nov 02 - 11:52 AM (#816118) Subject: RE: BS: Cranberry harvest From: GUEST,bbc at work open mike, My favorite (& easiest) cranberry recipe is an uncooked salad composed of equal parts of ground raw cranberries, halved seedless grapes, vanilla or plain yogurt mixed in to a nice texture & a little sugar added, to taste. It is very light & fresh-tasting. Delightful! best of the season, bbc |
