maine potato harvest Archives - MeInMaine Blog https://meinmaine.com/tag/maine-potato-harvest/ Maine Local Community Blog Mon, 29 Sep 2025 13:13:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://meinmaine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cropped-moose-Maine-32x32.png maine potato harvest Archives - MeInMaine Blog https://meinmaine.com/tag/maine-potato-harvest/ 32 32 Picking Potatoes On A Northern Maine Aroostook County Farm https://meinmaine.com/living-in-maine/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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]]> The Maine Potato Picking Field Checks Gladly Handed Over To Your Mother… https://meinmaine.com/uncategorized/the-maine-potato-picking-field-checks-gladly-handed-over-to-your-mother/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-maine-potato-picking-field-checks-gladly-handed-over-to-your-mother Wed, 02 Oct 2013 11:02:05 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=7917 The long standing tradition of picking Maine potatoes, when harvest hand crews reined supreme, kids were king. My Dad a farmer claimed that potato pickers, the rag tag motley crew of mostly kids did the best job. Leaving less behind in the field. Picking them clean as the field boss walking by would remind. Hand […]

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