SmugMug > keywords > conway cranberries > Here's Angel, Sherry and the Rake Guy getting ready to reign in another tightly packed circle or berries.
SmugMug > keywords > conway cranberries > This is dry picking. Not nearly as exciting but it sure was a pretty afternoon. This machine is walked over a dry bog and the berries end up in these sacks. The sacks are dropped and picked up by other  workers. By the way,  this is Angel, again. He wears many hats over the course of the year.
SmugMug > keywords > conway cranberries > Boy, did I learn a lot about cranberries and cranberry harvesting this week end. Here's the gallery, as promised....http://hocusfocusd70.smugmug.com/Journalism/Cranberries-Cranberries/10218246_av7er#704369742_n2WfZ   The folks who were harvesting this bog here in Lakeville, were so nice. The even let me go up onto their big machine (kind of like a boom) to get photographs of the bog from up above. I'll put some up a little later. This machine is called a picker. It goes through the bog and gently beats on the cranberry plants to loosen the berries. In this photo, you can see them spraying up  into the air with the water .
Here's Angel, Sherry and the Rake Guy getting ready to reign in another tightly packed circle or berries.
 > Here's Angel, Sherry and the Rake Guy getting ready to reign in another tightly packed circle or berries.
Here's Angel, Sherry and the Rake Guy getting ready to reign in another tightly packed circle or berries.
Photo by: Donna Leombruno (hocusfocusd70) • see photo in gallery

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