How Do You Grow Cranberries?
Well, you’re going to need some tall rubber boots. And a long rake. And your own private lake. And a whole lot of patience. And a generous financial backer with seed capital wouldn’t hurt either.
Most Americans eat cranberries once per year in late November. Almost 1/5 of the entire crop of US cranberries are consumed over the Thanksgiving weekend. A lot of them are turned into cranberry juice. People wise to nutrition understand the potent healing ability of this humble berry.
But do you actually know what goes into growing cranberries?
Are they farmed?
Picked wild?
Where do the cranberries we eat over the holidays on our turkey come from?
This documentary pulls back the curtain on US commercial cranberry production. While it’s a cash fruit crop that you and I will probably never grow in our gardens, it has limitless potential as the North American population ages and the trends of health and nutrition continue to grow.
Go underwater and high overhead to see cranberries as you’ve never seen them before. We unlock the secrets — and bust some myths — of this truly American fruit.
“How Does it Grow?” is created by MANIC MEDIA, and maintains a strict independent editorial policy:
Neither Lee Brothers nor Ocean Spray had any input in the making of this episode, nor did any money change hands.
The next time you’re at the grocery store and see the cranberry cocktail on the shelf, you will know where it actually comes from!
I like her, she’s cute
just poured myself a glass of cranberry juice.
I am a producer with Mic.com, could we use parts of this video for a video
we are making? Many thanks!
I filmed a similar process up in Maine.
looks like a dream job to me.
This is oddly satisfying….
its a dedicated hardwork people of new jersey be proud!
Yes! Wonderful people.
chris castillo
chris castillo
chris castillo
Monsanto
New Jersey -truly the Garden State!
This is cool shir
in the forest
I had absolutely no idea this is how they farm cranberries!!! I’m
Australian so apart from juice and craisins we don’t really eat a lot of
them, but I wish we Could buy them fresh
They’re not easy to find fresh here either outside of Thanksgiving!
great video!
love ur video from pakistan
this lady talks like an idiot
the block buster crop of usa. nothing even comes close. blackberries rule.
of course there are walnuts and almonds and corn. but berries are the king!
We get a lot of Blueberries in New Jersey. Especially in the pine barrens.
If you go in the pine barrens, you are bound to find Blueberry bushes
everywhere and you can just pick them off the bushes and eat them.
Very interesting video! Who would have known.