WOOD PRAIRIE POTATO HARVEST GOING WELL. Excellent digging conditions! This week we have shifted over from harvesting Fingerling Potatoes by hand, to using our Finnish “Super Midi” one-row Potato Harvester.
Here, the crew is working on the Juko (pronounced “Yuko”) right next door to a perimeter planting of Beneficial Flowers, this week dominated with Cosmos climaxing in riotous full-bloom (https://www.woodprairie.com/product/flower-seed-organic-seashells-cosmos/).
Those are “Dark Red Norland” Potatoes you can see coming up the “Primary Bed” of the Juko (https://www.woodprairie.com/product/organic-certified-dark-red-norland-seed-potatoes/).
Working on the Juko’s perpendicular “Secondary Bed” (L>R) are Justin, Rob and Kenyon. Out-of-sight working on the ground-level trailer grabbing tubers which dropped through the cracks is Cassidy. Caleb is back in the shop repairing equipment. Jim is driving the Oliver 1750 Diesel pulling the Juko and he snapped this shot. Megan is in the office keeping up with shipping orders and answering the phone. Amy is back at college studying and probably wishing she could be digging Potatoes!
In the distance on the right is our Oliver 1850 Diesel outfitted with a pair of forklift-forks mounted on the 3-point-hitch. That tractor is used to switch hardwood pallet boxes in the field when the box on the Juko gets full. Each pallet box holds a ton of Potatoes. Caleb, Megan & Jim
