Saturday, October 08, 2005

Cranberry bogs


The growing process for the humble cranberry had never really invaded my thought space too much in the past - all I knew for sure was that the cranberry is red; cranberry sauce tastes yummy with turkey; and it a refeshing and healthy, yet almost inaccessibly expensive drink. Here in Canada, and in the cooler parts of the US, the cranberry flourishes and is a huge industry. Cranberry juice is very affordable too. The cranberry is harvested in autumn and is grown in these "bogs", as shown here. They require scary amounts of water to thrive, so they are not the most environmentally friendly crop, therefore cranberry crops are best reserved for damper regions.
In pretty Fort Langely, they even hold a Cranberry Festival, which has been held over the Thanksgiving long weekend for the past 10 years.

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