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. 
Great review! I’ve taken the chocolate making workshop run by the same company and really enjoyed it!
What a great review. I’ve never done a chocolate tasting tour before, but it sounds right up my alley! My boyfriend is from Boston, and we usually look for fun things to do in the city when we go back to visit his family and friends! I may suggest this for next time! 🙂
I just went on the Harvard Square Chocolate Tour last week (and wrote a review on my blog too) and had an awesome time. The South End one looks great too, I’m very jealous we didn’t get to try any chocolate martinis in Harvard Square!
Looks like fun! I can see how the price is a little high…I’ve found many of those concoctions on my own. Love the South End Buttery!
Great review, all of the chocolate treats look delicious! I looked into doing one of these tours but felt the price was a little much.
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Thanks for coming on the tour. I think the review is very fair and I do love Katie and that tour. The beauty of that tour in addition to the eclectic neighborhood is that all the shops are small owner operated shops who sometimes keep different hours. Missing Blunch and their chocolate chip cookie (a Yelp favorite) Chocolee and the unbelievable chocolate beignets and the other “secret” stop that is often the tour favorite that may make change you your conclusion 🙂 You are more than welcome to come again or to another tour.
I loved this, it was sooo fun!
Oh wow…how yummy. I had never heard about these types of tours before but it looks like it would be something that we would really enjoy!