Eating cranberry sauce this year? Ocean Spray is a cooperative of family farms

[OnlinePoker]

No middle men or corporations. This is from last year but I just saw it. Pretty interesting.

How Ocean Spray harvests 220 billion cranberries a year

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-ocean-spray-harvests-220-billion-cranberries-a-year-2018-11?utm_source=reddit.com

[UTUSN]

1. Good to know, thanks, have avoided them thinking they were BigCorp

[icymist]

2. K & R

Cool!

[Joinfortmill]

3. Buy some Ocean Spray cranberry sauce this year. Help a farmer.

[MurrayDelph]

15. I never touch the stuff

but my wife typically buys a bag (or two) of berries from a roadside stand one of the growers sets up across the river in Washington.

[Hotler]

4. I keep 4-5 bags in the freezer. They are a little expensive now.

Closer to Thanksgiving they may be around 2-bags for $3.00. I like sauce not the jelly.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

5. Glad to know that, thanks.

Mmmm, crannnberrrryyyy sauce....why wait till Thanksgiving?

[burrowowl]

6. Buy the berries

and make sauce with oranges and pecans with less sugar than in their canned sauces and more yummy!

[warmfeet]

8. I love Ocean Spray cranberries.

Yummy!

[GulfCoast66]

9. I actually visited a farmer in the coop during harvest and got to wade in the bog.

I always support them. And as stated above, if you have the time and ability buy the berries and make your own cranberry compote. So much better than the sauce.

But if you insist on the sauce insist on Ocean Spray.

[EveHammond13]

10. cranberries were already at Trader Joe's today

not sure if origin was an Ocean Spray farm - but now I won't be afraid to buy that brand

[proud patriot]

11. good to know

[flotsam]

12. Here's a fun one...

I have no idea about their current status as a cranberry producer, but I love trains, so:

Atwood purchased two locomotives and most of the passenger and freight cars when the Bridgton and Saco River Railroad was dismantled in 1941. After World War II he acquired two former Monson Railroad locomotives and some surviving cars from the defunct Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad in Maine. This equipment ran on 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge tracks, as opposed to the more common 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge in the western United States. Atwood purchased the equipment for use on his 1,800-acre (730 ha) cranberry plantation in South Carver. Sand and supplies were hauled in to the bogs, and cranberries were transported to a "screen house" where they were dried and then sent to market. Atwood's neighbors were enchanted with the diminutive railroad. At first, Atwood offered rides for free. When the demand for rides soared, he charged a nickel a ride. Eventually the line became less of a working railroad and more of a tourist attraction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edaville_Railroad

[Demovictory9]

13. i would like to ride that railroad

[Danmel]

14. Cranberry world was a great attraction run by Ocean Spray

In Massachusetts in the 80s. I went there when I was in graduate school. Cranberry bogs are beautiful. They had samples and informational videos.
I always buy the jellied sauce for family members who prefer it and I make fresh whole berry sauce too. I keep a few bags in the freezer because you can't get whole berries in the spring and summer.
I also bake cranberry orange bread.
And on Thanksgiving I make cranberry margaritas!