Third Annual Harvest Day September 14, 2011

What weighs 150 lbs and is red, yellow, and white ? Potatoes !! The after school harvest of over 150lbs of potatoes gave everyone a thrill as kids dug and washed three beds planted in Spring of 2011. That produce once again was sent to PPS Central Kitchens where it was prepared and presented - salted and buttered  - at the Maine Harvest School Lunch Program during the week of Sept. 19-23rd.. The goal for the potato project is that kids see not just the results of their planting efforts. By planting, harvesting, and eating what they grow they make a connection to the idea of  gardens and agriculture in general as a source for healthy food-and in fact fun.  Most of all kids love digging in the soil for delicious treasure. Maine growers plant about 57,000 acres of spud seeds annually which adds up to about 1.6 billion pounds of potatoes ! These 150lbs may have been the most valuable crop this year.