And in closing

[ksmith]

Neither of the nearby grocers had any fresh cranberries. I wonder if they're seasonal, and the supply drops off after the holidays.

I may be calling around tomorrow...

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[juliabk.livejournal.com]

Ouch. That's a problem. We only generally seen them during the holidays, but I generally buy several extra packages (they come in plastic bags here) and slap 'em in the freezer. They freeze beautifully. When I make sauce, I toss them into the pot frozen.

[merlinpole.livejournal.com]

They're seasonal, but are still in stores in eastern Massachusetts--this area once was was the plurality grower, but was overtaken by Wisconsin I think it is, where there;s more land, it's less expensive land, and developers weren't eyeing it for McMansioning.

Meanwhile, there are still lots of bags and boxes of fresh berries around here.

(The harvest is in the autumn before Thanksgiving, I remember reading things that say that the ones used in sauce and such are wetharvested in the bogs, and the ones for selled bagged or in plastic boxes to consumers, dry harvested.

The reason they can stick around in stores, I think, is that they're rather less perishable than most berries. Towards the end of their nonperishable lives, or when the stores decided they want the space for something else, the packages get marked down--that hasn't happened yet.