Cranberries


If you know where to look, you can find (and pick) a lot of cranberries around the lake. And if conditions were right that season, it's nothing to pick 5 pounds in an hour. The real problem can be finding good recipes to cook them all. The plus side is that they freeze well so you can keep using them all year long. Cranberries grow well in this part of the St. John river valley and it has become a significant crop with artificial diked bogs. The dikes are quite large and interfere with the overland flow of water during the spring freshet and change the local flooding patterns. Who knows if this made things worse for the record flooding we had in 2018?

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