Pine Island Cranberry - Pt 2 of 2 - Packing House

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.

Harvested cranberries in Cranberry Boxes waiting to washed and sorted. PI makes the cranberry boxes

Cranberry box lifted by fork lift to be dumped into washing, spraying, and sorting equipment

Cranberries before leaves are sorted out. Leaves are sold as mulch to blueberry growers

Cranberries after being washed, sprayed, and sorted getting ready to be conveyered into trucks

Cranberries being conveyered in truck

Truck full of cranberries on its way to the Ocean Spray Receiving Facility in Chatsworth