Is wading among floating cranberries on your bucket list?
You have the chance to do just that during Cranberry Harvest Days hosted by Wetherby Cranberry Company.
This year’s event is Saturday, Oct. 4, from 9 a.m. to noon, and Sunday, Oct. 5, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Their popular Hip Boot Experience – where you can don a pair of chest waders or hip boots and walk out into a flooded cranberry bed – is being offered both days. Be sure to bring a camera or smartphone and someone will take photos of you and your group.
Saturday’s program includes harvesting demonstrations with third- and fourth-generation owners of the marsh explaining how Wisconsin’s No. 1 fruit crop is grown.
On Sunday no harvesting will be happening, but you can still do the Hip Boot Experience and view harvesting equipment on display.
The marsh’s on-farm store will be open both days. Fresh cranberries, dried cranberries, cranberry wine and cranberry cookbooks will be available.
The cost of the harvest tour is $10 for adults, $5 for children ages 6 to 12, and free for children 5 and younger. An additional fee is charged for the hip boot rental.
For directions and additional information, see the Wetherby Cranberry Company website or Facebook page.
After your marsh tour, stop at the Cranberry Discovery Center in downtown Warrens. The former cranberry warehouse houses a museum, gift shop, ice cream parlor and Shirley Ann’s Café.
Enjoy a cranberry themed lunch from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. And be sure to save room for a scoop of their cranberry ice cream made exclusively for them.
The museum exhibits have undergone extensive updating during the past three years. If you’ve toured the museum earlier, they encourage you to visit again. Click here for more information.
DnA Vintners of La Crosse will be at the Cranberry Discovery Center from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. pouring samples of their award-winning cranberry wines made with locally grown cranberries.
While you’re in the Warrens area, be sure to also visit Rex Moseley’s Fruit and Vegetable Farm and Moseley Roadside Market.
Rex Moseley’s Fruit and Vegetable Farm grows 12 varieties of apples – including Honeycrisp – available as pick-your-own or pre-picked, along with having apple cider and other produce for sale.
Moseley Roadside Market is offering free wagon rides to their pumpkin patch on Saturdays in October (weather permitting). See their Facebook page for more information on the wagon rides and other fall produce available.