Yesterday was the Cranberry Blossom Day in Warrens, Wisconsin, an area where Wisconsin’s No.1 fruit crop in grown. Cranberries have had a variety of different names since their discovery. Algonquins of Wisconsin dubbed the fruit “atoqua” but the name that stuck is the shortened version of crane berry, named by early German and Dutch settlers, because the flower’s resemblance to the head and bill of a crane.
Cranberry Blossoms
