FEATURE STORY
6 • November 2020
Coast River Business Journal
Industry Spotlight:
A family tradition
Bogh Farm harvests cranberries in Gearhart
Chloe Little, Trinda Bogh and Dan Bogh push the cranberries toward a moving ladder while Justin Bogh monitors the ladder from the top of the truck.
Story & Photos by Emily Lindblom
Coast River Business Journal
elindblom@crbizjournal.com
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efore families gather around the dinner table and
enjoy cranberry sauce during the holiday season,
a family in Gearhart gathers in a bog to harvest
the bright red fruit.
An Ocean Spray farm owned by Dan and
Trinda Bogh off Dellmoor Loop is one of four
cranberry farms on the North Coast. The Boghs
and their family members work together to grow the cranberries in
a year-round process and harvest them each fall.
Throughout September and October, the Boghs flooded the
bogs, beat the vines to release the cranberries, corralled the
berries together and pushed them through the water into a moving
ladder leading up to a truck. They worked alongside their family
members, including son and farm manager Justin Bogh and
granddaughter Chloe Little.
“It’s always kept our family together,” Dan Bogh said.
“It’s always that one thing you know, you go to grandma’s for
Thanksgiving or whatever. Well, the family would come here, and
it’s always been really neat.”
Trinda Bogh agreed.
“Once your grandchildren get to be 18 and older, you don’t see
them as much anymore as you did when they were little guys,”
Trinda Bogh said. “But now we have a cranberry farm so we get
to see them all the time.”
Cranberry heritage
Dan Bogh’s family has a rich history in the Gearhart bogs. His
father came to the area in the 1960s to work on the Astoria-Megler
Bridge. In 1978, his parents purchased a cranberry farm down the
road from the current Bogh Farm.
‘Every season, we were out in the
bogs, which is a family tradition.
This farm became available about
five years ago. It is just kind of our
little hobby.’
Dan Bogh
Bogh’s Farm