The potato harvest has begun for our farm this week and so I am now grading potatoes. This means that once the potatoes are lifted from the field, they are then tipped from the trailer onto a conveyor belt that allows us to grade the potatoes by picking out the following items;
- Stones,
- Mud,
- Weeds,
- Grass,
- Foreign objects,
- Rotten potatoes,
- Green potatoes,
- Mis-shaped potatoes,
- Largest potatoes,
- Smallest potatoes.
Although grading potatoes can be a little bit monotonous for some people, the conversation at our grader is certainly entertaining. I suggested that I tape the conversations and include them on my website as a podcast or should I say “potato-cast”!!!