Cranberry Bog

This week Rockefeller Plaza played host to a re-creation of a cranberry bog for Ocean Spray. There were Ocean Spray farmers there to explain anything you wanted to know about cranberries. Here is what I learned.



Cranberries are grown on srubby bushes that are pretty low to the ground. The berries themselves are filled with tiny air pockets. When it comes to harvest time, they flood the bogs and use giant wooden rakes to loosen the fruit from the plant. The ripe berries float right up to the top and they skim them off and train the bog. Pretty neat huh? I always thought they grew in water because you always seen pictures of the harvesters walking around knee deep in berries. Anyway it was really cool.







Red is my favorite color. Especially the deep tangy color that is a cranberry. I also LOVE cranberry anything.. relish, sauce, juice, muffins... walking outside the building and seeing a giant pool of floating red yummies was such eye candy. I just stared at them and felt like I was getting a massage on my optic nerves. It really felt so relaxing. I think with all the advertising and concrete and commercialism and materialism of Midtown the best treat for the senses is a large pool of cranberries.