We said we were done with canning, so it's a good thing that potatoes store well for the winter in an uncanned state! The Showell family in Amalga invited homeschoolers to participate in a service project collecting potatoes from their grandfather's field for the local food pantry and jail. Several families turned up for a couple hours on a beautiful autumn morning, and we harvested around 4000 lbs of Canadian Gold potatoes! Each family also got to take home as many potatoes as they wanted.
The farmer dug the potatoes with his tractor, then the families collected all the good ones (those without cuts, rotten parts, or green parts) and put them into giant bags. In the end we filled about 2 1/2 of these bags!
All the children had a wonderful time helping out, and they were so excited to see the full giant bags. We thank the Showells for giving us this opportunity to serve and also for the nice winter supply of delicious organic potatoes.
Megan holding some of the potatoes, Ian demonstrating the use of his potato "gun," and Erin playing with the farm puppy:
And here is some video footage (creatively edited by Kevin), so that you can almost feel like you were there too:
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