Bumber crop for New England Cranberry Bogs (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)

There is an upside to our sad soggy summer. Bumper crops. The harvest season has just begun, but those rain-soaked months look like they will yield a juicy cranberry crop this year.


Christina Tasson is a fourth generation grower from Burlington County, NJ.

The fruit looks a little bigger. It was great we had a nice balance. It was a little worrisome at first, but it didn't seem to effect it.

Another grower, Peter Beaton from Mass., says cranberry lovers are going to have the best cranberries they've 'ever, ever had,' this year and next.


Here Beacon explains, in great detail, the cranberry growing process.

Farming cranberries is all depending upon on the weather and we've had the heat that we needed to grow the crop. And very important in cranberries alone, that during the wintertime cranberries, like people, they like to go to sleep--a sound sleep--and cold, cold dries them into a nice dormant sleep. So between the cold in the wintertime, and the heat units and the warmth in the summertime across the nation and in southern Canada, we've been able to have a real, real good crops. Cranberries have been here before people were, and all we do is we kind of guide them through the process.

Cranberry blog at Rockefeller Center (image courtesy of Ocean Spray)

Cranberry growing season lasts through November. The harvest is also being celebrated at Rockefeller Center with a replica bog filled to the brim with over 2,000 pounds of fresh cranberries. (Bring your own waders.)