Canada: Excellent growing conditions for cranberries in BC
This year, cranberry growers are also pleased to have the support of the Province of BC through the Buy Local Campaign, to tell more BC consumers about who we are and what we do. This is just one more way to assist our farmers in reaching out to our neighbours and communities.
Our farmers love this time of year, it is the culmination of a year of hard work and truly is the opportunity to see the fruits of their labour in the most visually appealing way! Most of our cranberries are harvested for the process market (sweetened dried cranberries, juice, etc) which is done by flooding our fields to get the crop out. It is a huge production to get 95,000,000 pounds out of our fields are careful coordination with receiving stations over a period of about 2 months is required.
While we know that it is not always easy to identify BC Cranberries in stores when you shop, you may visit our website at bccranberries.com to find out about our producer vendors that do have BC cranberries available. Another way to support our BC farmers is actually through purchasing Ocean Spray cranberry products.
For more information:
Geraldine Auston
BC Cranberry Marketing Commission
Tel: +1 604 820 4451
Email: gauston@shaw.ca
www.bccranberries.com