80,000 school age children learned about foods grown on Massachusetts farms and linked these foods to their place of origin in the world. We thank Dawn Swanberg representing the Cape Cod Cranberry Growers Association and Gus Skamarycz of the Middlesex County Beekeepers's Association for their assistance in making this exhibit possible. Designed for the primary grades. It depicts many foods produced in our state accompanied with rhyme. 173 or write to her at the Mass .
Cranberries are one of three indigenous fruits.
The other two native fruits are blueberries and Concord grapes. Massachusetts' sugar maple trees are tapped each spring to produce between a million and a million and a half dollars' worth of maple syrup. Massachusetts maple production totaled 40,000 gallons in 1994. We are one of nine states in the U.S. commercially producing maple syrup. Approximately 1800 acres of pumpkins are planted each year at 450 farms across the state.