CRANBERRY | How Does It Grow?

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Nice try Ocean Spray. Not falling for Craisans anymore. Those things are loaded with sugar.

👍︎︎ 5 👤︎︎ u/wayan_nz 📅︎︎ Jan 17 2015 🗫︎ replies

If it wasn't for sugar, those things would be inedible.

I saw a package of cranberries being sold at the market and decided I would see what the fruit tasted like. I bought a batch, brought them home, took a bite, and in an instant it felt like one of those war head candies took a rancid dump in my mouth.

They are an abomination toward mankind and they need to be destroyed.

.....I did make them into cranberry sauce which wasn't that bad.

👍︎︎ 3 👤︎︎ u/[deleted] 📅︎︎ Jan 18 2015 🗫︎ replies

doese anyone else hate the way she says "berry"??

👍︎︎ 3 👤︎︎ u/tdavi006 📅︎︎ Jan 18 2015 🗫︎ replies

cranberries can survive an entire season underwater? can they survive underwater conditions indefinitely? this would be a sick aquarium plant dude

👍︎︎ 2 👤︎︎ u/greatestbird 📅︎︎ Jan 18 2015 🗫︎ replies

Great, now I'll be up all night watching how Cauliflower, and Garlic are grown.

👍︎︎ 2 👤︎︎ u/MrPeninsula 📅︎︎ Jan 18 2015 🗫︎ replies

Nothing like a cranberry sauce with vanilla bean, I make it every year cause I have a surplus of vanilla beans that I don't really use.

👍︎︎ 2 👤︎︎ u/ClintonHarvey 📅︎︎ Jan 18 2015 🗫︎ replies
👍︎︎ 2 👤︎︎ u/the_resident_skeptic 📅︎︎ Jan 17 2015 🗫︎ replies

Infusing vodka with cranberries...and some sugar is a nice thing to do in the winter.

👍︎︎ 1 👤︎︎ u/MoreCowbellPlease 📅︎︎ Jan 18 2015 🗫︎ replies

A couple years ago i seen fresh cranberries in the stores before thanksgiving, and decided i would try to make my own cranberry sauce.

I was surprised at how easy it was to make, and how amazing it tasted. I never bought canned sauce since then, and always make my own.

👍︎︎ 1 👤︎︎ u/Canadian_Man 📅︎︎ Jan 18 2015 🗫︎ replies
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Of all the fruits farmed in the United States, you can count on one hand, how many are native to this land - cranberries are one of them. They were both food and medicine - to Native Americans - who recognize the cranberries' anti-inflammatory properties. They even spread it on their arrow wounds. And today we know the humble cranberry outranks almost every fruit and vegetable for disease fighting antioxidants. Every year one-fifth of America's total harvest is consumed around one day: Thanksgiving. Most of that, is cranberry sauce. Only five percent of the nation's crop is sold as whole fresh cranberries. But everything else we eat: the dried sweetened cranberries, the juice, the sauce - it all starts with this peculiar little berry. And contrary to popular belief, cranberries don't grow under water. So - how do they grow? We're in southern New Jersey - one of America's top three cranberry states. This region is called the Pine Barrens, and natural habitat for cranberries. Many of the same families have farmed the berries since the mid-1800s - like the Leigh brothers - this seventh generation cranberry farm. Cranberries grow on low trailing vines and sunken beds called bogs. The plants are perennial, meaning they survive year after year. Here the oldest vines are over 65 years old. Cranberries love this sort of sandy soil, and they take a long time to grow - 16 months. You can see here that while the berries are ripening, the buds for next year's crop are already growing on the vine. So farmers have to carefully nurture two seasons worth of cranberries at one time. Water is one of the most precious resources for cranberry farmers. This 2,000 acre farm uses only a hundred and thirty acres to grow cranberries. The rest is a series of reservoirs and watersheds. The primary sources that is the waiting river, which runs naturally along the farm, and we'll borrow the water during the growing season, and put it back in when we're finished with it. We're simply holding the keys for the following generations after harvest. So what's all this water for, if the cranberries grow in dry land? Well, twice a year the farmers flood the bogs. First in December for the duration of winter. This is when the plants go dormant, and their blanket of water insulates the vines from harsh winter frost. In the spring, the bogs are drained, and the cranberries' pink flowers bloom. Nowadays, many farms like Lee brothers hire commercial bees to pollinate the fields. And by mid-June, the fruit begins to grow, the berries start out green, turn white around August, and finally, red in the fall. The funny thing about cranberries is, they don't really sweeten as they ripen like strawberries or blueberries. They're a naturally tart fruit, whether they're red or white, and the color is just skin deep. See, the inside is white and it's crisp like an apple, and inside there are four air chambers, which means that cranberries can - float - and that brings us to the second time the bogs are flooded: for the October Harvest. A harvester drives through to knock the berries off the vines. Then, farmers wade into the bog, to corral the floating berries to an elevator that sucks them up into a truck. Nearly all the cranberry farmers in New Jersey belonged to the Ocean Spray Cooperative, which grows over 60% of the world's cranberries. These berries will be frozen and processed into craisins and cranberry juice. Remember, cranberries are tart, so a lot of cranberry products have added sugar, to make them sweet. But around Thanksgiving, you can find whole cranberries (fresh or frozen) in the supermarket, and you can easily turn these beauties into a killer cranberry sauce. You can even mold the sauce, and refrigerate it for that fresh-from-a-can look, except this stuff is a whole lot better for you - and it tastes a whole lot better too...
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Channel: TRUE FOOD TV
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Keywords: Cranberry (Ingredient), Food (TV Genre), cranberry bog, cranberry harvest, Pine Barrens, how does it grow, wet harvest, Lee Brothers, New Jersey, Thanksgiving, Ocean Spray, food education, agriculture education, farms, farming, Lee brothers cranberry, chatsworth, how cranberries grow, cranberry sauce, cranberry juice benefits, cranberry sauce recipe
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Length: 5min 23sec (323 seconds)
Published: Tue Nov 11 2014
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