Aerial view of cranberry harvest! Here’s the simple scoop: ▪️Cranberries grow in a dry bed of vines. There is water in the ditches that surround the vines, but the bogs are not flooded when the berries are growing. ▪️Cranberries used to be harvested dry, either by hand or using a scoop. (In NJ, many fresh cranberries are still harvested dry, but there are machines that help making picking a little faster). ▪️Eventually, people figured out that cranberries float. There are four hollow air chamber