Keywords: potato field Farms
Item 22754
Aroostook potato field, ca. 1930
Contributed by: Haystack Historical Society Date: circa 1930 Media: Photographic print
Item 35884
Potato Field in bloom, Presque Isle, ca. 1910
Contributed by: David Gallagher through Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library Date: circa 1910 Location: Presque Isle Media: Postcard
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 - 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…"
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 10 of 13
"See how Presque Isle Middle School student Isaac's grandmother occupied her time in the potato field"
Story
The future of potato growing
by Dan Blackstone
Informed by six generations of potato farming
Story
Aroostook Potato Harvest: Perspective of a Six Year Old
by Phyllis A. Blackstone
A child's memory of potato harvest in the 1950s
