picking maine potatoes Archives - MeInMaine Blog https://meinmaine.com/tag/picking-maine-potatoes/ Maine Local Community Blog Mon, 16 Oct 2023 18:16:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://meinmaine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cropped-moose-Maine-32x32.png picking maine potatoes Archives - MeInMaine Blog https://meinmaine.com/tag/picking-maine-potatoes/ 32 32 High Food Costs, Lessons Learned In The Maine Potato Farm Field. https://meinmaine.com/living-in-maine/high-food-costs-lessons-learned-in-the-maine-potato-farm-field/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=high-food-costs-lessons-learned-in-the-maine-potato-farm-field Mon, 16 Oct 2023 15:58:59 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=17798 High food costs. It’s not the Maine potato farmer or organic grower making a killing. Not just inflation. All the middle men is where the extra grocery food costs come into play. Your household family food budget. There is no way anyone pushing the wire cart with the one squeaky wheel in their local Piggly […]

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]]> Your Favorite Flavor Ice Cold Milk Shake On A Hot Day In The Maine Potato Field. https://meinmaine.com/uncategorized/your-favorite-flavor-ice-cold-milk-shake-on-a-hot-day-in-the-maine-potato-field/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=your-favorite-flavor-ice-cold-milk-shake-on-a-hot-day-in-the-maine-potato-field Fri, 04 Oct 2013 11:28:49 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=7935 Little things, kind gestures go a long way to make the day. Especially if you are a young child sitting, standing or dragging along a Maine potato field basket. Under the hot sun of a fall day of brilliant colors during potato harvest. Potato pickers get a major boost, shot in the arm when out […]

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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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]]> Maine Blueberries, Harder Harvesting Than Potatoes. https://meinmaine.com/uncategorized/maine-blueberries-harder-harvesting-than-potatoes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=maine-blueberries-harder-harvesting-than-potatoes https://meinmaine.com/uncategorized/maine-blueberries-harder-harvesting-than-potatoes/#respond Thu, 15 Sep 2011 19:06:11 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=3125 Anyone in Vacationland that has picked Maine potatoes knows the value of a fall harvest dollar. Everything they buy with the hard earned money is equated with how many barrels it took to purchase it. And if the scales of effort “in” to product or service “out” is not even steven, the purchase is not […]

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