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Fact: Cranberries do not grow in the water! Cranberries grow on low-lying vines in sandy “bogs,” which are flooded for wet-harvesting in the fall, then re-flooded for the duration of the winter to protect from cold weather damage. |
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Fact: Cranberries are one of the three major fruits native to North America (the others are blueberries and Concord grapes). |
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Fact: Cranberry Vines are perennial. Some producing cranberry bogs are well over 100 years old. |
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Fact: Small air-filled chambers inside a cranberry cause the fruit to bounce, and also to float. |
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Fact: A cranberry grower can lose up to 75% of a crop if honeybees or bumblebees do not properly pollinate the cranberry blossoms. |
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Fact: Wild cranberries can be found along riverbanks and low-lying areas throughout the Pinelands and along the shore. |
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Fact: Ninety-five percent of NJ’s cranberries are sold to Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc., a grower-owned cooperative with a receiving station in Chatsworth and a processing plant located in Bordentown which together employ close to 300 people. |
