Meat and potatoes

SVcummins · Dec 2, 2021

john in la · Dec 3, 2021

Those pictures remind me of...
A lost culture in most of America today.

Riding for the brand.
While not being seen from the road.

So much so that statement will most likely fly right over most people's head.

BarnyardEngineering · Dec 3, 2021

Deep thought here but for the culture you enjoy today to exist, some other culture had to be lost, and somewhere someone is bemoaning the loss of that culture.

Mike M · Dec 3, 2021

Home , Home on the range.

No snow up there yet ? is that a current picture ?

Geo-TH,In · Dec 3, 2021

Thanks for the great view.
Ok, where are the taters, in the storage buildings?

jm. · Dec 3, 2021

Beautiful I would love to visit you... not a tree in site Makes my tennessee hills look diffrent

Traditional Farmer · Dec 3, 2021

Very true

Jim in NC · Dec 3, 2021

The serenity and beauty in your surroundings offer much more than what most people could ever comprehend.

Tom in TN · Dec 3, 2021

Geo,

We'll have to wait for SV to answer that question authoritatively, but in the meantime, I grew up in Northeastern Ohio. We had some significant sized potato farms in the area. The Duval family had about 4 quonset style barns that they stored potatoes in. Theirs were bermed with dirt about half way up the sides to keep them warm in winter and cool in summer.

The nearest town to where I lived is Mantua, Ohio. Although potato production has dropped off over the years, Mantua still has an annual potato festival each fall including selection of a potato queen.

Tom in TN

Geo-TH,In · Dec 3, 2021

40 years ago my dad did some work for a man in Wisconsin that raised huge yellow potatoes. Sold them for french fries. One potato was large enough to feed a family of four. I kid you not.

The farmer drained a shallow lake and grew potatoes in the muck.
Very tasty potatoes.

J.Wondergem · Dec 3, 2021

I didn't see any potatoes, road apples maybe.

SVcummins · Dec 3, 2021

Potatoes can grow huge here too the biggest ones are about 18 inches long about 4 inches across . I eat a lot of them in the fall thats a full meal right there .

SVcummins · Dec 3, 2021

Dry as a bone right now a change feels like its coming well see ?

SVcummins · Dec 3, 2021

The potatoes live in the cellars from fall until about March they will be shipped to be planted again and from there theyll become fries, chips , dehydrated potatoes and all other kinds of potatoes

fixerupper · Dec 4, 2021

Cummins sometime if you get the chance to be inside one of those cellars when it is empty you should snap a few shots of the inside to show the fellas on YT. I was in several of them up north of Idaho Falls. When they insulate the inside of the cellars with foam they haul the spray foam ingredients in by the semi tanker load. I was never inside a new one when they were spraying foam though. Some of the old cellars have a cement roof with straw bales with sand poured on them on top of the roof for insulation. In Iowa those bales would last a few months. In dry Idaho where a quarter inch is a big rain they last for years.

SVcummins · Dec 4, 2021

I will do that . I see straw bales on roofs of old cellars that
havent had spuds in them for 40 years and the bales are still
intact

thehickdaddy · Dec 4, 2021

great photos, thankyou

SVcummins · Dec 5, 2021

You bet

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