maine potato picking Archives - MeInMaine Blog https://meinmaine.com/tag/maine-potato-picking/ 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 picking Archives - MeInMaine Blog https://meinmaine.com/tag/maine-potato-picking/ 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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]]> Potato picking in Maine https://meinmaine.com/living-in-maine/potato-picking-in-maine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=potato-picking-in-maine Fri, 15 Oct 2021 14:11:15 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=16924 Potato picking in Maine. For many of us in Northern Maine, picking potatoes for an area farmer was our first real job. For anyone raised on a Maine potato farm like I was, the fall harvest tradition is a strongly ingrained tradition. Many grown ups take their vacations to work the harvest. It’s was that […]

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]]> Squeak Squeak Sound Of The Maine Potato Farm Harvester, Digger…. https://meinmaine.com/uncategorized/squeak-squeak-sound-of-the-maine-potato-farm-harvester-digger/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=squeak-squeak-sound-of-the-maine-potato-farm-harvester-digger https://meinmaine.com/uncategorized/squeak-squeak-sound-of-the-maine-potato-farm-harvester-digger/#respond Sun, 30 Sep 2012 17:53:51 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=5076 Picking potatoes, working as a kid on the Maine farm land means starting early, getting up when it is pitch black outside. Rise and shinning to the smell of frying, sizzling bacon and home fries, eggs just the way you like them. Partnered with a stack of pancakes, french toast drizzled in Houlton Farms Dairy […]

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]]> https://meinmaine.com/uncategorized/squeak-squeak-sound-of-the-maine-potato-farm-harvester-digger/feed/ 0 Learning From Your Kids Travels In And Out Of Maine. https://meinmaine.com/uncategorized/learning-from-your-kids-travels-in-and-out-of-maine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=learning-from-your-kids-travels-in-and-out-of-maine https://meinmaine.com/uncategorized/learning-from-your-kids-travels-in-and-out-of-maine/#respond Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:51:45 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=5045 As children grow up, graduate from high school, college in Maine, they venture out, explore, begin their adult life. And what they learn, they share with parents back at the ranch. Or when a trip is taken to where they are a long way from the childhood Maine home. Oldest son Alex is swinging back […]

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