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Busy Busy Week!

3/28/2021

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The packing shed is crammed 50lb bags of potatoes ready for delivery.  This is one of three rows of potatoes that are being delivered on Monday.  All week the grading line goes full tilt to keep up with orders from restaurants that are planning for one of their busiest days of the year this Friday.  Where are you getting your fish & chips from?!  You can visit “Chip Butty Recipe” for a fun and very different recipe involving fresh cut fries.
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Spring Forward!

3/13/2021

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Spring is in the air!  Murray would like to remind everyone to change their clocks tonight as we begin daylight savings time.  After a long and lonely winter, I think I can safely say we are all looking forward to longer days, warmer weather and the start of our next growing season. 
 
To see some fun spring photos, you can visit “Spring Cleaning” where John is hard at work performing routine spring maintenance on our tractors.

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International Women’s Day 2021

3/8/2021

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Celebrating women today and every day.  Christina and myself wear many hats at the farm.  Our jobs entail customer service, organizing daily delivery routes to restaurants, health & safety, food safety, accounting, payroll, general bookkeeping and data management, maintaining our website, updating our social media…..and yes I can go on! 
 
Here are a few great photos of us in action: the good old days when we used to work in the same office before COVID interrupted us; myself hanging banners and signage at our self-serve produce stand and Christina enjoying a view from a tractor on a rare field trip out of the office.
 
One thing we know for certain – we are appreciated here since we deal with all the papers so the guys can be out in the fields where they truly want to be. You can see my role as spokesperson for our farm by listening to my radio interview at “BJ’s Radio Interview’” or watching a promotional video for Snapd magazine at “BJ’s Acting Debut.”

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Random Things We Do - Culverts

3/6/2021

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​Every business has little jobs that no one really knows about or thinks about.  Here is one of the random jobs we do during the fall harvest.  Cornelio and Roberto are moving a culvert (which is not called a “big black heavy tube used for air flow” as I previously thought it was called!)  The culverts are essential to air flow and temperature control in our storage buildings over the winter.  And they do not move themselves in and out of the buildings!  To see a little bit more about our harvest you can visit “Tater Tales Oct 6th #harvest17.”
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Tractors For Every Season (Turn! Turn! Turn!)

3/1/2021

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Sing along everyone.  I know you all know this classic song:
 
To everything (turn, turn, turn)
There is a season (turn, turn, turn)
And a time to every purpose under heaven
A time to plant
A time to reap
 
We use our tractors in every season and have implements for every purpose imaginable.  Here are our tractors hard at work preparing our land for planting as they pull implements such as the fertilizer spreader, disc harrow, cultivator and manure spreader.  The heavy duty tractors pull the large potato harvester and the smaller windrower during the harvest.  And sometimes we even allow a special guest to tag along with the drivers to provide some company during the very long summer days!
 
To see videos of these machines at work you can visit “Tater Tales Potato Planter” and “The Potato Harvester.”

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