Cranberries

• Native Americans used cranberries to make pemmican - a high protein combination of crushed cranberries, dried deer meat and melted fat.
• Cultivation of the cranberry began around 1810 in Dennis, Massachusetts.
• Today we eat cranberry sauce with turkey, cranberries are a unique fruit.
• They grow on vines in impermeable beds layered with sand, peat, gravel and clay. These beds are commonly known as "bogs."