. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. CRANBERRY HARVEST, TIME TO MAKE NEW FRIENDS by Idell Panter Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from an article appearing recently in the Bandon (Ore.) World. It describes some interesting events that cranberry growers can i experience in the day-to-day operation of their endeavor. Cranberries would be pleased to hear from others who would like to share their usual or unusual experiences with the industry. The Cranberry Harvest of 1977 is over, but for us, the Panters, new friendships have been made. And in talking to other
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. CRANBERRY HARVEST, TIME TO MAKE NEW FRIENDS by Idell Panter Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from an article appearing recently in the Bandon (Ore.) World. It describes some interesting events that cranberry growers can i experience in the day-to-day operation of their endeavor. Cranberries would be pleased to hear from others who would like to share their usual or unusual experiences with the industry. The Cranberry Harvest of 1977 is over, but for us, the Panters, new friendships have been made. And in talking to other growers, especially those whose bogs are along the 101 highway like ours are, they say the same things about how interesting people are who are inquisitive enough to stop to find out "what on earth are you ; Every year we have just such visitors but this year it was particularly interesting and let me say right here, that they, so far as we are concerned, are NOT a bother to us at all. We just ; go right ahead with our harvest, for I that is what they stop to see. WIren I possible we explain about this most I interesting crop and with these } people stopping by it breaks the [monotony of an otherwise hard job, besides the advertisement we get for cranberries as these people come from various parts of the For instance, one day a couple from not so far away said they have traveled around the world a couple of times are are always interested in the agriculture of the many coun- tries they visit, but had never before seen cranberries harvested. Another couple from Santa Rosa, Calif., have a common factor be- tween us as they grow prunes for the Sun-Sweet Co. who have hired Ocean Spray to handle their prod- uct on the East Coast by reconsti- tuting and bottling their prune juice. They left us a few delicious tree-ripened figs, so I showed them how to hand-pick a small bag of our produce, cranberries. And most everybody invites us to visit them. Like one year a c
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