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Instead, they grow on low, trailing vines in dry bogs that are made of sandy, acidic soil. The planting season begins in the springtime when cranberries are planted with proper spacing to support ...
Cranberry Glades—also known simply as The Glades—are a cluster of five small, boreal-type bogs in southwestern Pocahontas County, West Virginia, United States. This area, in the Allegheny Mountains at about 3,400 feet (1,000 m), is protected as the Cranberry Glades Botanical Area , part of the Monongahela National Forest .
The native wetland plants that produce cranberries start growing in May. When they are ready to be harvested, farmers flood their bogs with water and send out a picking machine to shake the berries from the vines. Then more water is added to the bog, and the freed cranberries float to the surface. “The season has been pretty good this year.
After the bog was destroyed to create Shenandoah Acres, many of the rare species once found there became locally extinct. [6] Since Dr. Dodge was also responsible for introducing cranberries to nearby Green Pond, it's possible that the cranberries growing there came originally from what is now Shenandoah Acres. [7]
Cranberries can be found in acidic bogs throughout the cooler regions of the Northern Hemisphere. In 2020, the U.S., Canada, and Chile accounted for 97% of the world production of cranberries. Most cranberries are processed into products such as juice, sauce, jam, and sweetened dried cranberries, with the remainder sold fresh to consumers.
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 ...
A pair of old cranberry bogs in Mashpee, Chop Chaque, are about to be restored to wetland. The transformation is part of a growing trend on Cape Cod. One way to improve Cape Cod's water quality?
Appalachian bogs are boreal ecosystems, which occur in many places in the Appalachians, particularly the Allegheny and Blue Ridge subranges. [19] Though popularly called bogs, many of them are technically fens. [20] Bog species include cranberry and blueberry (Vaccinium spp.), bog rosemary (Andromeda glaucophylla), and buckbean (Menyanthes ...