The Great Potato Harvest

It was an exciting morning last week when my eldest declared we should harvest potatoes. As suspected, the event was delightful so it is with first hand knowledge I repeat the recommendation that all should grow potatoes, regardless of age!The kids were bursting as we unearthed the purple and brown spuds and honestly, I was too. Each turn of the soil brought happy kid chatterings and eager hand digging. It was a fun, dirty finger nail morning! We are saving the potatoes in a cool place to enjoy for our Thanksgiving feast. We had a small crop, as some potatoes revealed the chickens had been enjoying the bounty as well!! I had thought the hens simply liked the cool shade of the plants, unaware of the happy munchings they were partaking in. Thankfully they only ate those close to the surface and there were plenty deeper down for us to enjoy too. While we dug, all 13 hens gathered around watching us, surprised by the goodness they had missed perhaps.