Wednesday
Sep142011
Harvest Time
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 12:10PM It saddens me to say that the end of summer is upon us. I would love Fall if it were followed immediately by Spring. Ok, enough complaining!
Local farmers are bringing in their Fall harvests. I met up with two of them in Dracut last weekend, JoAnn and Kamal, as they collected their potato crop. Bigger farms will harvest potatoes with a fork, as I used to do when helping my father. I imagine that factory farms use something far more high-powered to dig them up. JoAnn and Kamal like to get down into the dirt and find them by hand. As JoAnn told me, using a fork results in a number of potato stabbings. This way, they find them all and they don't destroy them in the process.







Reader Comments (1)
Well, you can stop fall from coming. I love fall but I'd definitely miss spring and I'm really not looking forward to winter, which I know will be pretty cold. Oh and I thought those were fingers [second image - right].