The Boston Globe, October 19th, 2003
The annual cranberry harvest at the town-owned, 100-year-old bog is an event in Carlisle. Visitors stroll on the public paths that circle the bog and cross it on dikes. Tamma Duffy, the farmer's wife, presides over a sales table displaying plastic bags of fresh whole berries and jars of honey from the 22 beehives kept to pollinate the cranberry plants. Last Sunday, Mark Duffy, who farms the bog under a 20-year lease agreement with Carlisle, began wet harvesting, which takes about a week. That's when the bog is flooded and the bright red berries - shaken off their stems by a special harvesting ...
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