Keywords: Potato Farm
Item 14633
Red Ball Brand potato bag, Caribou, ca. 1970
Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: circa 1970 Location: Caribou Media: Paper
Item 16027
PT potato bag, Unity, ca. 1965
Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: circa 1965 Location: Unity Media: Paper
Item 148733
Plan of Seboomook Farm, Seboomook, 1923
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1923 Location: Seboomook Client: Great Northern Paper Company Architect: Great Northern Paper Company
Exhibit
Blueberries to Potatoes: Farming in Maine
Not part of the American "farm belt," Maine nonetheless has been known over the years for a few agricultural items, especially blueberries, sweet corn, potatoes, apples, chickens and dairy products.
Exhibit
The Taber farm wagon was an innovative design that was popular on New England farms. It made lifting potato barrels onto a wagon easier and made more efficient use of the horse's work. These images glimpse the life work of its inventor, Silas W. Taber of Houlton, and the place of his invention in the farming community
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - Farm Life
"Farm Life Myron Gartley Farm, Presque Isle, 1976Presque Isle Historical Society King Farm, Presque Isle, ca."
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - Fred Urquhart Farm, Presque Isle
"… fertilizer per acre, yielding 217 barrels of potatoes this field. Common fertilizers are rated as having certain variable percentages of nitrogen…"
Story
The future of potato growing
by Dan Blackstone
Informed by six generations of potato farming
Story
Growing up on a potato and dairy farm
by Paula Woodworth
Life growing up and working on a potato and dairy farm was hard work but fun in Aroostook County.
