![]() ![]() ![]() I saw she was selling cranberries and I asked her about them–she doesn’t grow them herself, she gets them from a local cranberry farm in Port Orford. Owner Pam, showed me around the property, introduced me to her livestock (goats, rabbits, and chickens), and farm stand. It’s part of the Wild Rivers Coast Farm Trail, a network of 10 farms, farm stands, and local food markets that travelers can stop at along their road trip. When I was driving through the area, I stopped at Dragonfly Farm (49295 Highway 101), a small family-operated farm stand and garden supply store right along the highway in Langlois, OR. Highway 101 near Bandon and Airport Road in Port Orford are good places to spot cranberry fields. There are no cranberry farms open to the public, so foodie travelers looking to spot cranberry fields just have to watch from the side of the road and hope you catch a cranberry producer during harvest. I’m kind of a produce nerd, but I admit to never thinking much about where this staple holiday fruit comes from (before the can!) so I was excited to find this out and spot these farms myself. Farmers harvest the berries in fall just in time for the holiday rush. ![]() Though the state doesn’t grow the most cranberries, the ones they grow are valuable Oregon cranberries have the deepest and darkest color red because of their long growing season. Bandon calls itself the Cranberry Capital of Oregon and has a cranberry festival each September to celebrate the fall cranberry harvest. There are dozens of these fields driving up Highway 101 between Port Orford and Bandon, Oregon. The berries grow on runners along the ground, so to harvest the fruit, farmers flood the bogs and skim the floating berries off the top. These cranberry fields are also called a cranberry bog - a recessed rectangular pit, filled with a dense mat of cranberry bushes. Behind the ball? Not anymore! We have all the super-easy, last-minute appetizers that will keep your guests thinking you're on the nice list.If you drive Highway 101 up the Oregon coast right now, you might notice an unusual fall landscape–shrubby and angular, brick red fields. While you're boozing, you might as well try out all our favorite holiday cocktails, Christmas shots, and holiday party appetizers to add to the table too. If you really want to be Christmas party-ready, try one of our favorite bartending kits. Need to restock that bar cart? We've tried all the best gins, vodkas, and tequilas to add to your collection (they also make great gifts!). Hot tip: Put these into a thermos when you go outside caroling or building snowmen! Our white Christmas margaritas, our copycat Olive Garden limoncello lemonade, or our mistletoe margaritas are the perfect excuse to bust out that new Black Friday sale blender too.Ĭan't stand the idea of something frozen? We've got a couple of our favorite hot cocktails here too, like our glögg, our Crockpot red wine hot cocoa, and our wassail. Speaking of warm weather drinks, we've also got a few frozen options on this list that are perfect for when the radiator or fireplace is bumping and you've got lots of bodies jacking up the heat at your house. We've even taken our favorite warm weather cocktail, the Aperol Spritz, and made it sweater weather-ready in the form of our cranberry Aperol spritz. Mix up a batch of some of our favorite winter sangrias, like our cran-apple sangria or our virgin cranberry basil sangria (that can easily be made boozy too!), and feel free to add any and all of your favorite winter fruits, like apples and sliced pears. Sangria is one of the easiest big-batch cocktails to make ahead, and we've got plenty of recipes that go beyond just white sangria and red sangria. Our recipes for jingle juice, Christmas punch, or boozy Grinch punch just take a few minutes to mix up, and you'll be well on your way to making merry.Īny of your favorite cocktails can be made in large batches when you mix it in the right order: alcohol first, then flavorings, then any fruit or bubbly at party time. This Christmas, give yourself the best gift of all: not playing bartender all night at your holiday party! Big batch cocktails, holiday punches, and easy-to-make Jell-O shots are truly the gift that keep on giving, and we've got plenty that will keep the party going strong until New Year's. ![]()
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