Garden Harvest

Kindergarten helped to harvest potatoes and leeks for the upcoming Maine Harvest Lunch Week. We learned that potatoes are a major crop in Maine and that they grow below the soil, they are called tubers and have a very large stem that grows above the soil. 

      

We had to dig up the potatoes and then rinse them in a bucket to get the dirt off, we harvested potatoes of many different sizes.

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Leeks are in the onion family and grow above and below. We can eat the white part that grows underground and the light green part above the ground. The leeks were sometimes hard to harvest, the roots didn't want to let go of the soil!

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Maine Harvest Lunch Week is September 17-21 and a yummy potato salad that we helped to harvest will be on the menu!