Workers adjust floating booms while wet harvesting cranberries at Rocky Meadow Bog, Friday, Nov. 1, 2024, in Middleborough, Mass. AP Photo/Charles Krupa The native wetland plants that produce ...
John Darlington’s family was growing cranberries in South Jersey even before U.S. President Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863. How's that for a Thanksgiving tradition?
The native wetland plants that produce cranberries start growing in May. When they are ready to be harvested, farmers flood their bogs with water and send out a picking machine to shake the ...
MIDDLEBORO, Mass. (AP) — Weeks before Thanksgiving, some of the cranberries on dinner plates Thursday are floating on the Rocky Meadow bog in southeastern Massachusetts. The cranberries have ...