The potato harvest is a long held tradition in Aroostook county. Students go back to school in early August so they can take a time off to pick potatoes. You can read the story of three foreign exchange students and their experience picking potatoes in the Bangor Daily News.
Filed under: Farm, Food, Garden, Growing Vegetables
What percentage of harvesters is made up of local students, Canadian workers, Hispanic workers? Thank you.
Paul,
I don’t have any of those numbers. The CoC in Houlton (county seat) might be helpful. Are you working on a new book?
Thank you. Will try the County Clerk (presume that’s CoC). Not working on a book but an article several months out. Just for curiosity sake, how did you know about any previous writings?
CoC is Chamber of Commerce. Sorry about that. Your name sounded familiar so I Googled you. A man who worked in community development had an office next to mine back in my city days. I remember seeing something you’d written.