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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2018
A FRUITFUL
HARVEST
Photos by Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
Justin Bogh moves cranberries through one of the Bogh Farm bogs during the fall harvest.
By COLIN MURPHEY
The Daily Astorian
L
ocated just off High-
way 101 near Gearhart
is an agricultural oper-
ation that many peo-
ple might more closely associate with
the state of Washington than Clatsop
County. But cranberries are grown here
and when the time is right, they have
to get out of the field and into a waiting
truck. That’s when the Bogh family puts
on their waders, grabs tools and trudges
out into the water. They spend more
than a month flooding bogs and gather-
ing the berries that float to the surface.
Dan and Trinda Bogh push cranberries toward a conveyor belt in one of the farm’s bogs.
Cranberries tumble into a truck on the Bogh Family Farm.
Justin Bogh, right, helps move cranberries toward the conveyor belt.
Dan Bogh trudges through a flooded cranberry bog on his family’s farm near
Gearhart.
From left: Justin, Trinda and Dan Bogh harvest cranberries on their farm near
Gearhart.