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Cranberries are a group of evergreen dwarf shrubs or trailing vines in the subgenus Oxycoccus of the genus Vaccinium. Cranberries are low, creeping shrubs or vines up to 2 meters (7 ft) long and 5 to 20 centimeters (2 to 8 in) in height; they have slender stems that are not thickly woody and have small evergreen leaves.
Cranberries in the United States grow in cool northern climates, but you'll also find them grown in parts of Canada. "Most of our cranberries grow in Wisconsin, which is the largest cranberry ...
The crop is well suited to Wisconsin—not needing hot temperatures, growing in marshlands, and resistant to the extreme cold. Cranberries need little care, and are easy to grow. [26] Today Wisconsin produces 60% of America's cranberries. In 2016, the state grew 6.13 million barrels of cranberries from over 20,000 acres of cranberry fields. [27]
Vaccinium vitis-idaea is a small evergreen shrub in the heath family Ericaceae, known colloquially as the lingonberry, partridgeberry, [ a ]foxberry, mountain cranberry, or cowberry. It is native to boreal forest and Arctic tundra throughout the Northern Hemisphere, including Eurasia and North America.
Cranberries grow wild everywhere from the mountains of Georgia to Minnesota to the Pacific Northwest. They were first cultivated in Cape Cod in the early 1800s, and became a major industry in ...
It's cranberry season, and farmers across the state are working to harvest the berries from their flooded marshes. "The marsh was started in 1903. We first started packing fresh fruit in 1905.
Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. is an American agricultural cooperative of growers of cranberries 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).
“Cranberries have been around north america forever – they’re native wetland plant here in Wisconsin,” says Tom Lochner. “We harvest here in Wisconsin about 21,500 acres of cranberries ...