Cranberry Harvest- New England News

The cranberry harvest has begun in New England! This drone footage was taken 10/23/24 on Tremont Street, in Carver, Massachusetts. This road is lined with cranberry bogs on both sides. These wet harvest cranberries will be made into juices, jellies, and dried fruit. This method involves flooding the bogs to help remove the berries from the vines. The berries float to the surface because they are hollow and contain air pockets. A machine with a large spindle on the front, like an eggbeater, agitates the water to help the berries float. Once the berries are floating, the berries are then corralled with large rubber bands, then sucked up into a machine that separates them from the water and stems. They are then taken to a nearby processing plant.