Cranberry Learning, Inc., is a nonprofit education tool and cranberry career pathway guide. Our mission is to share cranberry learning resources that connect students to the cranberry industry. The Cranberry Lesson Plans and Videos are STEAM based and have elements that meet educational standards while including cranberry production and horticultural facts.

Cranberry Learning’s vision is to contribute toward the short and long range plan for agriculture and the cranberry industry’s workforce succession plan. With cranberry lesson plans for traditional and nontraditional K-12 classrooms, we will direct students to cranberry industry careers with lesson plans & videos embedded with a cross over of agriculture and cranberry content focused on academic career planning curriculum.

Cranberry Learning will grow your understanding where and how cranberries are grown, who cultivates cranberries and produces cranberry products; as well as the effects cranberry agriculture has on the economy, environment, technology, lifestyle and its relationship to cranberry growing communities.

Cranberry farming is a trades driven industry with a variety of work environments to choose from and it lends a path toward a balanced lifestyle career. 

Two cranberry specialists, Pam Verhulst, Cranberry Consultant, and Heidi Slinkman, multi-generational family grower, founded and spearheaded Cranberry Learning. Both live and work in their Wisconsin cranberry communities.