The Cranberry Harvest, Part 2 of 2, Landers Farms, Ellisville, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA

This is Part 2 of a two-part series. Part 1 is at this link.

The harvesting machines are gone now - off to their next site. Left behind are gazillions of cranberries - floating and corralled tightly ready to be loaded and transported to market.



The big truck at right above contains the pump equipment that will suction the berries out of the bog.



The workers keep the berries flowing into the inlet pipe (the big green one) where they are suctioned up onto the truck........



......rinsed of debris......



....and loaded right into a huge tractor-trailer bed for transport to a central processing location.



That's a lot of berries. And this one bog will fill three truck beds. Not that it matters but, it was raining like crazy on this day- regardless, the harvest goes on.



You may think that the owner's pet, Wiley the Wonderdog, is patrolling and protecting the cranberries - you would be wrong - he is trolling for frogs or other critters along the edge whose habitat has been disrupted by flooding the bog. There are enough of them to put a spring in his step and motivate him to drag his aging body alongside the bog demonstrating the excitement and anticipation of a puppy.



If Wiley could speak, he'd likely say, "I'm a gonna' catch me some critters today."