WASHINGTON — Retired Lumberton police Chief Larry Thomas is doing a different type of patrolling these days.
He’s knee-deep in water, herding wayward cranberries into a vacuum pipe — the first step on their journey to Ocean Spray for processing into juice or Craisins.
Chesterfield Officer Ed Vincent joins him.
They are two of several police officers who spend their days off this month at the Lee Brothers Cranberry Farm in Washington, Woodland and Tabernacle.
They wade through flooded cranberry bogs “for the fun of it,” Thomas said. “After 30 years in police work, it’s nice to work outside.”
All spring and summer, the cranberries grow in bogs — square plots of sandy soil surrounded on all sides by higher berms called dams.
The dams delineate the bogs, giving a cranberry farm a quilted look. The closer the berries are to the sun, the redder they get as they grow. Those shaded by other berries remain a milky white, although they, too, are ripening
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He’s knee-deep in water, herding wayward cranberries into a vacuum pipe — the first step on their journey to Ocean Spray for processing into juice or Craisins.
Chesterfield Officer Ed Vincent joins him.
They are two of several police officers who spend their days off this month at the Lee Brothers Cranberry Farm in Washington, Woodland and Tabernacle.
They wade through flooded cranberry bogs “for the fun of it,” Thomas said. “After 30 years in police work, it’s nice to work outside.”
All spring and summer, the cranberries grow in bogs — square plots of sandy soil surrounded on all sides by higher berms called dams.
The dams delineate the bogs, giving a cranberry farm a quilted look. The closer the berries are to the sun, the redder they get as they grow. Those shaded by other berries remain a milky white, although they, too, are ripening
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