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American cranberry growers have a long history of cooperative marketing. As early as 1904, John Gaynor, a Wisconsin grower, and A.U. Chaney, a fruit broker from Des Moines, Iowa, organized Wisconsin growers into a cooperative called the Wisconsin Cranberry Sales Company to receive a uniform price from buyers.
Vaccinium macrocarpon, also called large cranberry, American cranberry and bearberry, is a North American species of cranberry in the subgenus Oxycoccus. [ 4 ] The name cranberry comes from shape of the flower stamen , which looks like a crane 's beak.
In 1816, Revolutionary War veteran Captain Henry Hall became the first colonist to cultivate cranberries, which he did on Cape Cod. Yes, We Cran! The story behind Massachusetts' dazzling crimson ...
Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. is an American agricultural cooperative of cranberry growers headquartered in Plymouth County, Massachusetts.It currently has over 700 member growers (in Massachusetts, Wisconsin, New Jersey, Oregon, Washington, Florida, British Columbia and other parts of Canada, as well as Chile).
It's cranberry season, and farmers across the state are working to harvest the berries from their flooded marshes. "The marsh was started in 1903. We first started packing fresh fruit in 1905.
American Revolutionary War Captain Henry Hall was an American from Dennis, Massachusetts who fought in the American Revolutionary War , who later was the first to successfully cultivate cranberries .
Cranberries are one of three commercially cultivated fruits native to North America and are grown in the wild on vines in sandy bogs and marshes, explains Katy Galle, senior vice president of ...
Northern highbush blueberry. A number of popular and commercially important food plants are native to the Americas.Some are endemic, meaning they occur naturally only in the Americas and nowhere else, while others occur naturally both in the Americas and on other continents as well.