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. 
My friend and I took that same pizza class with Susan Miller in April. She is so sweet and such a great teacher. So much fun. We didn’t want the class to end. Hoping to do another class at KAF this winter. Love your blog!
Great tips!
Awesome tips, and it looks like a lot of fun at the KAF…how cool is that!!
I guess I usually cook my veggies before putting them on pizza, but I never thought that you had to! VERY good to know. Also, I need to go smell my whole wheat flour ASAP. Great tips 🙂
Sues
fantastic tips!!! i just smelled my flour and threw it out!!! thanks so much!!!
What a great batch of tips! Thanks for much for sharing.
Wow. You remembered so many awesome tips! It’s surprising to look back and see how much we all learned and picked up on in such a short time. I love this list.
Did you get to watch Just Desserts last night? Drama, drama, drama!
Wow, thanks or these great tips!
Awesome tips 🙂
What a cute idea for a post – love it! Just voted for you too 🙂
This is a great recap. I feel like I learned more last weekend than I have in awhile. . . or maybe I was just more interested in baking than most other things! 🙂
thanks for passing along the tips!! i was bummed i couldn’t make it 🙁
All great tips! I love the first one so simple but really useful
LOVE IT! This post was great. Such a fun weekend, great job summing it up!
I love these tips! Thanks so much for posting them. And thanks for the info about KAF’s baking help hotline – I will DEFINITELY be using that!
That is an interesting tip about whole wheat flour!
such a great post! very nice recap and photos of all the tips we learned.
I’m glad you and your girlfriends enjoyed The Abbey this weekend as well! new restaurants are so exciting.