Cranberry Epic, Rubies in the Sand {video}
This episode begins in September with the dry harvest of the cranberry at Fairland Farms in Norton Massachusetts. Wet harvesting follows, and then it’s a trip to Carver to view processing the fruit at Decas Cranberry Products. The show closes in Emily’s Garden with Bonnie Kavanagh, co-author of” Rubies in the Sand” cookbook. Food for [...]
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ON THE JOB WITH: Fairland Farms The cranberry bog at Fairland Farm in Norton. When you picture cranberries, don’t just think of cranberry sauce; envision glazes for meat and fish, fun cocktails and sweetened dried cranberries as a nutritious snack. There’s so much you can do with the cheery red berries to enjoy them year-round and [...]
Dry Harvesting at Fairland Farms {video}
Dry harvesting, the “new” old way. Cranberries were once scooped by laborers with wooden scoops while crawling on their hands and knees. The cranberries were collected in wooden boxes then brought to a screening house for sorting. Times changed and mechanical harvesters were invented, but the labor is still very intensive. These dry pickers are [...]
Wet Harvesting at Fairland Farms {video}
Wet Harvest The cranberry bogs are flooded with 6 to 8 inches of water so the Water Pick Tractors can drive through and separate the berries from the vine. These tractors have agitating, spinning rollers on the front that graze the vines, causing the cranberries to be released. Cranberries float because the interior seed cavity [...]
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