This area was a giant sand pit 2 years ago!

I am reminded that restoration design will need to consider these channels.

North of the nursery.

The picking machines gently shake the berries from the vine

Pablo, a university student from Spain, joined the crew for a month.

During water harvest, cranberries are contained by a floating boom; the tightness of the boom controls the density of the berries as they are pushed to the pump.

As the berries come up to the detrasher, they encounter a fine high-presssure spray which separates the berries from the trash.

Young herons and ducks hang out on the 26 acre during harvest.

Will we be able to canoe through the restored wetlands?

Canoeing down Beaver Dam Brook|

In the early days, berries were pushed up onto a conveyor.

At the top of the conveyor, trash was supposed to separate from the berries.

The 35 acre was in bad shape when it was purchased; all the lateral ditches needed cleaning.

The ditches were dug out little by little, but how to get that heavy mud off the bogs?

The mud was placed on mats

|Helicopters flew the muddy mats to the uplands.

The 14 and 35 acre bogs were in need of a lot of sand; the river kept the ice open, so Tidmarsh resorted to flying sand on with helicopters.

The goal was to evenly cover the bogs with an 1.25" of sand; it took two years to sand the 14 acre.

The 14 acre was half sanded when spring came.

You get a sense of the relation of the bogs to Fresh Pond and the ocean.

Aerial of 14 acre showing the second year sand flown on by helicopter.

The bogs are beginning to green up.

In order to insure Beaver Dam Brook flows freely downstream of the bogs, we use a weed harvester; this practice raised concerns by persons living around Bartlett Pond, so we developed a weed catching grate which was placed at 3A.

If enough ice forms on a winter flood, buggies are used to distribute the sand across the bogs.

Bogs are sanded every 3 years; many yards of sand are sieved each year before it gets to cold, in order to have enough sand ready to apply when the ice forms.

Coffee breaks allow the crew to warm up and share fishing stories.

|Clare's View|Clare is ready to help push the berries.

Ricky, Alice and Carol find a comfortable seat on a flatbed.

From canal on East side of 14

Late afternoon light

at Harvest Party

April is a hopeful month

It will be a long harvest

after the harvest

Our friends and their children don waders.

On a single run, these trucks hauls 40,000 pounds of berries to Ocean Spray.

Ralph distributes berries so they wont fall out of the truck.

These turkeys have just left the garden.

|Signs of spring.

These tiny white flowers make the bog look like it has a case of dandruff.

The bees are ensconced on the mound between the 14 acre and 35 acre.

The bees are rented for 3 weeks; they  are trucked in and leave at dusk or dawn.

Most likely, the sprinklers are be flushing out a chemical application.

Without the boards holding back water, this might turn out to be a vernal pool.

Farm vehicles await next use.

These pickers were designed and built by x.

As the discs spin, the pickers shake the berries off the vine.

|The ice edge breaks crisply along the channel on the 32 acre

In later May the vine has begun to green.

Flip enjoys the early morning light.

Eric and his pals suit up for Harvest on T1