By: Dominick Adank
On September 30th, Jaime Harper and a group of Secondary 9-12 students went to harvest potatoes for Fairview Farms. Fairview has been supplying potatoes and many other types of vegetables for our school lunch program. Since they have been so generous to offer us their products, we decided to lend our time and effort to help them with their work. We left our school at around 8:30 and arrived at the farm shortly after 9. We met up with John, one of the farmers, and he gave us some information on potatoes and how their farm runs. After that we started our potato picking extravaganza. They said they were growing 58 rows of 23 different types of potatoes. When we finished, we had completed about 4 rows of potatoes, which was somewhere around 1900 lbs. After we finished, John and the other farmers let us take some potatoes with us. We had such a good time; we told them we would help him out again some time in the near future.
