Irrigation is a must in this weather!
After taking a poll around the farm nobody can accurately remember whether 3 or 5 years have passed since the weather called for irrigation, but today we were forced to dig out the big guns! Literally… Some of the potato plants had run out of energy so we are in the process of throwing them enough water so they will survive the hot spell we are experiencing. President, Don Thibodeau tending to irrigation.
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Green Thumb Farms and Cold River Vodka are featured in this great article in Farming: The Journal of Northeast Agriculture. Check it out! http://www.farmingmagazine.com/article.php?id=5401 From Potato Chips to Potato Vodka by Kathleen Hatt A lot of passion + a little Internet = a new market Donnie Thibodeau with a 50-pound bag of potatoes for the restaurant market. Photos by Kathleen Hatt. When Donnie Thibodeau’s father Larry first saw the Saco River Valley farm with corn growing 9 feet high, he wondered whether potatoes, too, would grow as well in its sandy, rock-free soil. A lifelong...
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