What, exactly, are white cranberries? They’re cranberries early in the harvest season, and they’re ripe! If you put white cranberries in the freezer, they turn red. If you cook them, they turn red. That’s because cooking and freezing releases the anthocyanin (red pigment). If you look at a bed of cranberries, they all look red. […]
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Summer Farm Tour
If you come for a summer farm tour at Johnston’s Cranberry Marsh in Bala, Muskoka, Ontario, you’ll discover how we ‘bloom and grow.’ Cranberries blossom in July and, by August the berries have formed. It’s now near the end of August, and we have lots of green berries on the marsh. The development of cranberries starts in […]
Cranberry Blossoms
Cranberry blossoms appear in late June and into July at Johnston’s Cranberry Marsh in Bala, Muskoka, Ontario. It’s one of the prettiest times of year here because the cranberry beds take on a blush of pink. Cranberries are named for their flower. Early settlers thought it looked like the head of a crane, so they called them […]
Spring Farm Update
Spring is a beautiful time of year on the farm. The cranberry vines emerge from under the snow a beautiful burgundy colour. Interestingly, cranberries are an ‘evergreen’ vine, which means they keep their leaves year round. When they enter their dormant phase, however, the leaves turn a deep red colour. As the days warm up […]