Newsletters #9-09

They arrived from Montreal on Sunday to film a segment of Active Toi, a show for children, urging them to Get Going or Get Involved. They were focusing on agriculture and the family farm. Blue Lagoon Organics was chosen to present the organic CSA section. Three Junior High students from Ecole Real Berard in St. Pierre Jolys interviewed us and decided they would promote the local organic farm by having two tubs of organic veggie snacks dropped off twice a week at their school. This was all done in French, to be televised in Quebec and we let Rene play the lead role at Blue Lagoon. It was an interesting experience and took up a lot of our time but the kids did help us harvest potatoes for a short while. Therefore you have 3 lbs of potatoes in your tubs this week.

These potatoes are an unexpected success story. Because the soil was wet we planted late but optimistically Rene and Ranko planted a lot of potatoes. For years we have been battling the Colorado Potato Beetle which reduced our potato crop significantly. This year, much to our surprise, there were hardly any beetles and the plentiful rain bulked up the potatoes nicely. Unfortunately it also made the potatoes very muddy so we had to wash them. New potatoes should not be washed as it rubs off their papery skins. If your potatoes have bald patches, it is because Angela scrubbed the gluey dirt off. The skins went with it.