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Cranberry Farming
Warrens, WI
Vocabulary
Corral: (sounds like, core-RAL) A confined space for animals.
Innovative: (sounds like, IN-no-vay-tiv) Able to think of new ideas, methods, or devices.
To corral: (sounds like, core-RAL) To gather and hold in a confined space.
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Journal Questions
 Is there any food that your family eats every day at every meal? What is it? Do you like it?
From what you learned on Nodji's web pages, how can a farmer be an artist?
Have you ever needed to invent a machine or tool? What did you invent? Tell about it.
Does your town celebrate an important product or crop? What is the product or crop? How does your town celebrate
it? Have you ever been a part of the celebration?
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Resources For Teachers
 Cranberries: Positively Wisconsin.
Produced by Wisconsin State Cranberry Growers Association. A fourth grade curriculum unit featuring five 45-minute lessons and a professionally produced, youth focused video. It is designed to foster
specific skill learning, while exploring the historic, environmental and economic aspects of cranberry cultivation in Wisconsin. The unit is available to elementary teachers for a cost of $14.95.
To order:
Send a check payable to WSCGA for $14.95 attached to a copy of your school letterhead. (Note: Check must accompany order, they do not accept Purchase Orders.) Provide:
Teacher’s Name
School Mailing Address
City, State, Zip
Daytime Phone #, Including Area Code
 “Wisconsin Cranberries” Activity Book
An eight-page booklet packed full of facts about the little red berries, puzzles, color-by-number pictures and youth-oriented recipes. Specific pages can be photocopied and used as free-standing
activities. Books are available free of charge and postpaid to your school. Please indicate the number desired.
For more recipes that let you taste Wisconsin cultures, see: Home Cooked Culture: Wisconsin through Recipes.
Ed. Terese Allen. Madison: Wisconsin Arts Board, 1998. It is available through the University of Wisconsin Press.
 Nodji and Jim make cranberry-apple wine! Here is the La Crosse Tribune’s September 2002 article
about their wine business.
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Resources For Students
The Cranberry Book
by Elizabeth Gemming, 1983.
This is a great book for doing research on cranberries: lots of old machinery photos, history of cranberry cultivation, look at farming in the New England area.
The
official site for the Warrens Cranberry
Festival gives the dates and times for all their cranberry events each
year.
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Credits
Text written by Jamie Yuenger, edited by Anne Pryor.
Sources consulted include fieldwork with Nodji Van Wychen by Jamie Yuenger (2001) and a taped interview with Michael Kline (1998), with material housed at the Wisconsin Arts Board; and these
websites:
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