When Andrew Lee, a seventh-generation family member growing up on the Lee Brothers cranberry farm near Chatsworth, was asked to participate in the cranbassador program this year at the Philip E. Marucci Center for Blueberry and Cranberry Research and Extension, a substation of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station of Rutgers University in Burlington County, he was admittedly a little hesitant.
The 11-year-old has been immersed in the cranberry farming culture practically since he was born. Every year since 1868, the family has harvested the farmland’s 18 cranberry bogs for shipment, in recent years, to the Ocean Spray processing plant, located four miles down the road.
Needless to say, Andrew knows a thing or two about the industry. But after reluctantly attending the program, he said he was surprised to learn that he did not, in fact, know everything about cranberries.
http://thesandpaper.villagesoup.com...children-science-of-cranberry-farming/1090512
The 11-year-old has been immersed in the cranberry farming culture practically since he was born. Every year since 1868, the family has harvested the farmland’s 18 cranberry bogs for shipment, in recent years, to the Ocean Spray processing plant, located four miles down the road.
Needless to say, Andrew knows a thing or two about the industry. But after reluctantly attending the program, he said he was surprised to learn that he did not, in fact, know everything about cranberries.
http://thesandpaper.villagesoup.com...children-science-of-cranberry-farming/1090512