Cranberry Harvest Celebration
Hubby and I made it to the cranberry festival last weekend! Columbus Day weekend was the Cranberry Harvest Celebration.
Hubby and I learned all about how cranberries are harvested. We learned that wet harvest berries are when they flood the bogs like in the pictures here. These berries are used in the majority of cranberries sold in cans and sauces.
Dry harvest berries are picked off the stem with a machine as opposed to flooding the bog. This is a more labor intensive process and results in a higher quality berry. These are the bags of fresh berries you see at the store.
We had a beautiful crisp fall day to enjoy our time outside. They had tons of activities for children, lots of fair food, pumpkin painting, helicopter and pony rides, and of course the bog tours.
Hubby and I eat had a Boars Head bratwurst. I joked about getting a fried Oreo, but decided that wouldn’t be the best decision. After the bog tour, we split a stuffed Quahog and a small bag of kettle corn while walking back to our car.
While on the bog tour, we even got to try some berries as they came straight off the machinery! They were very tart but still delicious.
Of course, I had to get a bag of freshly harvested cranberries to take home with me.
If you haven’t made it out to a cranberry celebration, I would highly recommend it. Columbus Day weekend is when the festivities seem to happen each year.
Don’t forget about my Power of Pink Challenge – make something PINK by the end of the month to raise Breast Cancer Awareness!
I am Jen the Beantown Baker. Engineer by day and baking maven by night. Hubby serves as my #1 fan and official taste tester. We got hitched back in 2006. Barefoot. In the sand. With the waves crashing behind us. It was one of the best decisions we’ve ever made. 
Interesting to know those things really happen! So what was your official feedback, and had everyone been raving about the food before the announcement? Hubby and I have eaten the Wanchai Ferry Sweet & Sour Chicken and weren’t thrilled with it (tasted very sweet and goopy, just overall processed). I guess it’s all psychological!
Hahahaha that’s so funny that they did a little switch on you. Like you pointed out, I guess that is how they did the Pizza Hut commercials.
I think you did a great, fair recap of the event. It was at least really nice to run into you there! And you got some great pictures.
Sarah – I updated my post to include more feedback. As I mentioned, we were discussing how the first two courses were much better than the entrees. At least at our table, there was no raving.
I’m glad you had fun, although I’m a bit perplexed that they thought they could fool foodies with a frozen dinner! I still haven’t been to Flour and really need to go – I feel like I’m a bad Boston blogger!
I agree Kerstin, most food bloggers probably don’t eat many frozen entrees… But it definitely wasn’t all food bloggers.
I heard about this event from Megan and it sounds interesting to say the least. It just seems like GM didn’t do their research because that is not similar to Myers + Chang’s food! Either way, at least you had fun with some other food bloggers!