One of my best childhood memories....

is farming as in working at my grandfather’s cranberry bog harvesting cranberries. The name "cranberry" derives from the Pilgrim name for the fruit, "craneberry". Cranberries best grown on vines in impermeable beds layered with sand, peat, gravel and clay. These beds, commonly known as "bogs," were originally made by glacial deposits.

My grandfather had nice large cranberries bog in Hanson, MA back in the 1960's which was in the same area that first cranberry sauce marketed in 1912. Hanson is a town in Plymouth County, in the Boston-Cambridge-Quincy metro area. Cranberry packing house built here eventually became Ocean Spray Corp. In 1930, Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. formed as a grower owned marketing cooperative. In the U.S., most cranberry sauce (and cranberry products in general) is produced by the company Ocean Spray. Ocean Spray is an agricultural cooperative owned by more than 650 cranberry growers in Massachusetts, Wisconsin, New Jersey, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and other parts of Canada.

On an interesting note for those who loves MUSIC, John Lennon repeated the words Cranberry sauce at the end of the song Strawberry Fields Forever, a fact that Lennon confirmed in a 1980 interview.