Cranberry Bog in Sandwich

This morning on our way to work we took Rt. 6A instead of getting on Rt. 6 to get over the Sagamore Bridge to Rt. 3. I had Michael pull over so I could get a couple of shots of a cranberry bog that has been going through a transformation of sorts. Read in the local paper that the guy who owns this bog has removed all the old plants, reworked the soil, the irrigation system, small canals, brought in new sand and all new plants. The new plants are a hybrid with a harvest in three year of over three times the harvest of last year. He also owns over a 1,000 acres of bogs on the Cape and in Southeaster Massachusetts and will be doing the same thing to the other bogs he owns. It was interesting to watch the progress all summer. All the new plants are in and it should take three years for a harvest.