I got to see one of
Pine Island Cranberry's packing houses when I was with my friends from
Downstown several days ago. Please take a few moments to read an article on the
Pine Island packing house in the Pine island Scoop. Pine Island (PI) is a member of the Ocean Spray Cooperative as are the Lee Brothers whom I will write about in my next post. The truck load of cranberries that you see in one of the photos is being taken to the Ocean Spray receiving facility in Chatsworth. From the receiving facility the cranberries are trucked to one of two other Ocean Spray facilities in NJ, in Pemberton or Vineland.
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| Harvested cranberries in Cranberry Boxes waiting to washed and sorted. PI makes the cranberry boxes |
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| Cranberry box lifted by fork lift to be dumped into washing, spraying, and sorting equipment |
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| Cranberries before leaves are sorted out. Leaves are sold as mulch to blueberry growers |
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| Cranberries after being washed, sprayed, and sorted getting ready to be conveyered into trucks |
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| Cranberries being conveyered in truck |
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| Truck full of cranberries on its way to the Ocean Spray Receiving Facility in Chatsworth |
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