Tour Season

Learn all about cranberry farming history, harvesting types, cranberry varieties, bee keeping and much more from Annie, 3rd generation farmer on this very land.
Want to learn all about cranberry farming? The origins, history, cranberry types, harvesting types, and related picking, processing, and shipping equipment? How about planting, fertilizing, and sanding? Maybe bee keeping, honey extraction/spinning and bottling are your thing? Come and take a one hour tour and you'll get all of the above and more, plus many humorous anecdotes from a 12th generation Cape Codder and 3rd generation and 30 year cranberry farmer. Tours given by Annie at 11am on Saturdays and Sundays when the Gift Shop is open. Generally that is the 5 weekends starting Columbus Day weekend.

So Much to learn...

Annie's tour explains the Dry Pick Harvesting method and why she used it exclusively until 2024.
Dry Pick Harvesting See this section of the Harvest Season page for more info.
Bee hive maintenance is one of the many tasks Annie covers during her 1 hour tours.
Repairing Bee Hive Frames One of the many bee hive maintenance tasks.
Annie's tour explains the Wet Pick Harvesting method and why she didn't use it at Annie's Crannies until 2024.
Wet Pick Harvesting See this section of the Harvest Season page for more info.
Annie covers the history of cranberry planting, harvesting, cleaning, sorting, and shipping methods and equipment during her tours.
Hayden Separator 1905 This is not only a working antique, but even today's separators are designed the same. Quite the improvement over the cranberry boat shown hanging on the wall to the right that was used for nearly 100 years prior.
Anne's tour explains bee keeping and honey extraction, spinning and bottling.
Honey Extraction, Spinning, and Bottling No, the bees don't do ALL the work!

Sanding...

Spreading sand over bogs allows them to grow new vines, smothers fungal spores and the eggs of pests that would otherwise hatch in the spring, and produces more berries. Sanding methods include Dry, Ice and Barge.
Annie covers dry and other methods of sanding during her 1 hour tours.
Dry Sanding Above, Dean drives sanding buggy on rails placed on top of bog.
Annie covers ice and other methods of sanding during her 1 hour tours.
Ice Sanding Above, Annie drives sanding buggy on frozen bog.
Annie covers ice and other methods of sanding during her 1 hour tours.
South Bog Ice Sanded

To learn more

See the History page for more cranberry information and the My Story page for how I got into this line of work.
HistoryMy Story

Check out The Products

Tour season is Gift Shop season, so if it's that time of year visit the Gift Shop for the cranberries, honey, jams, beeswax candles, soaps and more.
Gift Shop