A Bogside Tradition

Photo by Karen Bento
Booms are used to corral the floating cranberries for harvest.
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Chris Wilson scoops up a handful of plump, tart, Fresh From the Vine cranberries while wet-harvesting.
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Bog sanders are used predominantly for ice sanding, a technique used to spread a thin layer of sand over dormant cranberry bogs.
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Fresh From the Vine’s farm stand has been a welcome sight along Route 28 for a decade. Only the freshest cranberries are picked, hand sorted, and sold to eager customers.
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Lindsay and Chris Wilson at their farm stand proudly display a bag of their dry-harvested, hand-sorted, Fresh From the Vine cranberries.