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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Gloria Oladipo

Massachusetts farmers turn cranberry bogs back to wetlands in $6m initiative

people stand in a cranberry bog
Workers harvest cranberries at the Rocky Meadow bog in Middleborough, Massachusetts, ahead of Thanksgiving. Photograph: Charles Krupa/AP

As millions of cranberries were being harvested for Thursday’s US Thanksgiving holiday, Massachusetts farmers were working to convert defunct cranberry bogs to back to wild wetlands, amid climate crisis woes.

Several restoration projects were awarded $6m in grants to carry out such initiatives, state officials announced this week.

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