oh here is a fun lil perspective on cranberry harvesting i never heard about anywhere else. the guy who owns the restaurant right down the road from the farm, who fries our chickens sometimes, is from Boston, with the strongest Boston accent ever, and in a former life before he started slinging reasonably priced barbeque and occasional organic chicken, he was a cranberry farmer.
His farm was on the leading edge of kinda using organic/sustainable pest control methods, and one of the things that they did to keep insect damage down was that they encouraged wolf spiders to live in the cranberry field, to eat the bugs.Â
This was all fine and good until they flooded the bog. Now, you donât just like flood the bog and then go around it in a boat or whatever. No, you use hip waders to get in there and put the big floaty things where they go and get all the berries and such.
Well when youâre in the bog in hip waders, that makes you the tallest thing. Wolf spiders can swim a bit, but they donât like it, so theyâre, quite understandably, looking to climb out of the water onto a tall thing.
So yeah the first interview question he always asked potential cranberry bog harvester hires was âare you cool with spiders?â
âYouâd be amazed,â he said to us, shaking his head a little, âhow many guys would just straight lie. Like, you think Iâm asking you that question to be cute? Nah man youâre gonna have like a hundred wolf spiders trying to climb your eyebrows, you gotta be chill, those wolf spiders are fellow employees. You really gotta be chill with spiders if youâre gonna work a cranberry harvest.â
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