Harvest
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Harvest usually takes place from September to October. It begins by partially flooding the beds with water brought in by a series of pumps & culverts. A tractor & rack go through the beds to knock the berries off the vines. The beds are then fully flooded, allowing the berries to float on the water's surface.
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Berries are then corralled to one end of the bed with a boom and siphoned off using a berry pump. The berry pump separates most of the debris from the cranberries, and the debris is later sold as compost.
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The berries are loaded into gravity wagons and hauled to the berry washing building, they are rinsed and put onto semi-trucks.
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Semi-trucks hold approximately 3 gravity boxes of cranberries. There are anywhere from 8-16 gravity boxes in a bed, depending on its size.
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The average crew can harvest 2 long beds or 4 short per day. Equaling around 8-10 semi-loads a day.
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The marsh produces millions of pounds of cranberries.
