{"id":4578,"date":"2020-10-29T15:02:48","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T19:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dykenpond.org\/?page_id=4578"},"modified":"2020-10-29T15:59:02","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T19:59:02","slug":"bog-cranberries","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dykenpond.org\/?page_id=4578","title":{"rendered":"Wild Cranberries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/dykenpond.org\/?page_id=4578\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"400\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/dykenpond.org\/?attachment_id=4579\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4579\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4579\" src=\"http:\/\/www.friendsofdykenpond.org\/dykenpond\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/2073965_83a36a16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dykenpond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/2073965_83a36a16.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dykenpond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/2073965_83a36a16-290x218.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When we think about Thanksgiving, often turkey and cranberries are some of the first things to come to mind. It\u2019s not surprising that two of the main dishes associated with this harvest celebration can both be found in the wild. Both wild turkey and wild cranberry can be found naturally at Dyken Pond Center.<\/p>\n<p>Wild cranberry grows in bogs, fens and other wet forest habitats. It is often found growing on mats of sphagnum moss (as in the photo above) and can be found in Dyken Pond\u2019s fen. Cranberry goes by many names; such as <em>sassamenesh<\/em> (Algonquin) and <em>ibimi<\/em> (Wampanoag and Lenni-Lenape). Its many Native American names roughly translate to \u201cbitter\u201d or \u201csour berries\u201d. Cranberries have been used historically for dyes, medicine, and of course food. Birds, rodents, hares and bear all feed on wild cranberries. If only they knew how much better they are cooked up with a little sugar!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we think about Thanksgiving, often turkey and cranberries are some of the first things to come to mind. It\u2019s not surprising that two of the main dishes associated with this harvest celebration can both be found in the wild. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dykenpond.org\/?page_id=4578\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4578","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dykenpond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dykenpond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dykenpond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dykenpond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dykenpond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4578"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dykenpond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4584,"href":"https:\/\/dykenpond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4578\/revisions\/4584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dykenpond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}