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New England Maple, Cranberries and Orchards

Agricultural region

MAPLE: Vermont is by a wide margin the largest US producer, and the season is short and weather-dependent; the practice is Indigenous in origin and is recorded as such. CRANBERRIES: one of very few commercially grown fruits native to North America, on the Cape Cod and Plymouth County bogs, wet-harvested by flooding so the berries float โ€” the red-bog image is a harvest technique, not a growing method; Massachusetts and Wisconsin dominate, and the Wampanoag used the fruit long before. WILD BLUEBERRIES: the Maine barrens grow LOWBUSH blueberries, โš  a different and smaller fruit from the cultivated highbush kind, managed rather than planted, raked by hand, and historically harvested by Passamaquoddy and Miโ€™kmaq crews. APPLES and CIDER: the orchard is a New England institution, cider was the ordinary drink of the colonial period, and cider donuts and hot mulled cider are autumn ritual.

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Communities and languages

Languages: English, Wampanoag

What is recorded

  • Cranberries are among the few commercially grown fruits native to North America; wet harvesting by flooding is a harvest technique rather than a growing method. Maine wild blueberries are lowbush, a distinct and smaller fruit from cultivated highbush blueberries, managed rather than planted, and historically harvested by Passamaquoddy and Miโ€™kmaq crews. Vermont is the largest United States maple producer. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • related to Maple Foodways documented

    One maple tradition across a border, Indigenous in origin on both sides.

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