When In Idaho

You go pick potatoes!!

Some turn green if in the sun to long 

Some grow weird tumors 

Some are teenie tiny

Some are regular

They all grow in HUGE fields that go on for miles and miles!

It is harvest time up here. The farms have big trucks that drive over the fields and unearth them. Then another on drives over them and shoots them into a truck driving next to it. They then haul them off and store them in big barns. There are tons that don't get picked up and they just leave them out there. Any one is free to go to the fields and pick as many as you want. NaElle and I went out to a farm a mile from us and we found the field they had just finished plowing. It looked like they hadn't even touched the field yet! There were so many potatoes left over. I couldn't believe they had already finished the section. I guess they grew so many that its okay to have so many left over. 

Rylee loved it because she got to be outside. We grabbed a bag full and came home and made twice baked potatoes. They were yummy Idaho potatoes!! The only difference I saw was they were a whole lot easier to clean. They came right from the dirt and didn't sit three years in the barn. Did you know that the ones you buy in the store can be up to 3 years old!! The dirt came off with very little scrubbing. Did you also know that the ones they can't sell in the store like the green ones and sun bleached ones turn into flakes and potato pearls. 

We had a lot of fun picking them! We now feel like real Idahoians!