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It is known as the Cranberry Capital of Ontario, as the province's largest cranberry farms, Muskoka Lakes Farm and Winery (formerly Johnston's Cranberry Marsh) and the former Iroquois Cranberry Growers (closed in 2017), are located nearby. It was once the smallest incorporated town in Canada until it was amalgamated into Muskoka Lakes Township.
Iroquois Cranberry Growers (ICG) was a cranberry farm owned and operated by the Wahta Mohawks on their territory near Bala, Ontario.The project was started in 1969 [1] as an economic development venture with 0.5 acres (0.20 ha) acre of cranberries and grew to 68 acres (28 ha).
The farm was shut down in 2017 due to economic reasons. "Wáhta" is the Mohawk term for the Maple festival, one of their important ceremonies. Wahta Mohawk Territory was founded in 1881 after the Sulpician Order bought land here for Mohawk from the community of Kanesatake, Quebec , where there had been political and religious strife over land ...
The Harwich Conservation Trust plans to buy about 50 acres of the Thacher family cranberry bog property in Harwich. Ray Thacher Jr. will continue to farm the bogs for the next couple of years as ...
Mint. Clinton County’s Crosby Mint Farm is the oldest operating mint farm in the country with roots dating to 1912. By the turn of the century, 90% of the world's supply of mint oil came from ...
The cranberry farm founded by Darlington's family was the state's largest by the early 1900s, when it supported a company town now preserved as Whitesbog Village in Browns Mills.
Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. is an American agricultural cooperative of cranberry growers headquartered in Plymouth County, Massachusetts.It currently has over 700 member growers (in Massachusetts, Wisconsin, New Jersey, Oregon, Washington, Florida, British Columbia and other parts of Canada, as well as Chile).
The secret of the cranberry’s success has always been stealth. After two centuries of cranberry-free Thanksgivings, the fruit quietly became a holiday staple thanks to US general Ulysses S ...