maine potato farms Archives - MeInMaine Blog https://meinmaine.com/tag/maine-potato-farms/ Maine Local Community Blog Mon, 29 Sep 2025 13:13:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://meinmaine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cropped-moose-Maine-32x32.png maine potato farms Archives - MeInMaine Blog https://meinmaine.com/tag/maine-potato-farms/ 32 32 Picking Potatoes On A Northern Maine Aroostook County Farm https://meinmaine.com/2025/09/23/picking-potatoes-in-a-northern-maine-aroostook-county-farm/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=picking-potatoes-in-a-northern-maine-aroostook-county-farm Tue, 23 Sep 2025 14:56:59 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=18444 One spud, two spuds, picking potatoes on a Northern Maine Aroostook County farm. Was it hard for kids to head out into the early morning darkness to the Maine potato farm field? What work ethic lessons were learned for youth relied on to get the potatoes basket picked, poured into barrels, trucked from the Maine […]

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]]> Maine Potatoes, Let’s Talk About Spuds https://meinmaine.com/2020/04/23/maine-potatoes-lets-talk-about-spuds/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=maine-potatoes-lets-talk-about-spuds Thu, 23 Apr 2020 18:26:38 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=16094 Maine potatoes, I grew up on a spud farm. Did I eat a lot of rice growing up you ask? (Smiling) Ah no. The Maine potato was king for the entire country back in the 1940’s. Maine grew more potatoes than any other state in the nation. Aroostook County soil is ideally suited for raising […]

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