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Cranberries: How Does It Grow?

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Cranberries might have one of the more spectacular-looking harvests of any food. Every October, cranberry bogs full of low-growing, fruit-bearing, woody vines are flooded with water. As harvesters drive through, the mature cranberries separate from the vines, rising to the water’s surface as a stunning red and white drifting mass. There they are corralled with floating booms to be collected and processed.

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In this episode of How Does It Grow?, Nicole Cotroneo Jolly walks knee-deep into floating cranberries, taking cameras underwater and high above the bogs to explain the 16 month growth cycle of this native American fruit.

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cranberry bog
Come for the cranberry bog, stay for the orange juice and honey-sweetened cranberry sauce recipe at the end of the video.

Related watching: How Does It Grow? Cauliflower and Garlic.

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