“This cranberry grew in our bog,” says Annie. “It’s round and red and ripe. Who wants to drop it and see what happens?”
“It bounces,” says Yo.
“Yes,” says Annie, “because there are air pockets inside.”
“Cranberries need soggy ground,” says Annie. “We grow our cranberries in fields of wet, spongy peat moss with sand on top.”
“What cranberries really, really need is sugar,” says Yo.
“Here’s the bog in June when the cranberry plants were flowering,” says Grandpa. “When the flowers dropped off, they left tiny green berries.”
“The berries grew and grew, and now that fall is here, they’re big and red,” says Annie.
“Wow!” says Yo. “There must be a million zillion cranberries. How do you pick them all?”
“Look behind you,” says Annie. “Yesterday we flooded…
