aroostook county farming Archives - MeInMaine Blog https://meinmaine.com/tag/aroostook-county-farming/ Maine Local Community Blog Mon, 07 Mar 2011 04:39:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://meinmaine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cropped-moose-Maine-32x32.png aroostook county farming Archives - MeInMaine Blog https://meinmaine.com/tag/aroostook-county-farming/ 32 32 Maine School Vacation For Youth Key To The Aroostook County Potato Farm Harvest. https://meinmaine.com/uncategorized/school-vacation-for-youth-key-to-northern-maine-potato-harvest/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=school-vacation-for-youth-key-to-northern-maine-potato-harvest https://meinmaine.com/uncategorized/school-vacation-for-youth-key-to-northern-maine-potato-harvest/#respond Mon, 07 Mar 2011 03:49:31 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=2549 Local Aroostook County farmers I have talked to estimate half and more of their fall potato harvest crews are from the local schools. And without them, it would be very hard to find workers for the fields, potato houses for that three week period. But down country, other school systems don’t have fall harvest break. […]

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]]> https://meinmaine.com/uncategorized/school-vacation-for-youth-key-to-northern-maine-potato-harvest/feed/ 0 Maine Potato Farmers Raise, Grow 55,000 Acres. https://meinmaine.com/uncategorized/maine-potato-farmers-raise-grow-55000-acres/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=maine-potato-farmers-raise-grow-55000-acres https://meinmaine.com/uncategorized/maine-potato-farmers-raise-grow-55000-acres/#respond Fri, 15 Oct 2010 14:22:07 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=2189 When you live in Maine, you don’t eat a lot of rice growing up on a potato farm in Aroostook County. Nothing wrong with rice, but with potatoes all around you on the Maine farm, its just a big part of most meals. This year the day after day of sunshine from spring planting through […]

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