238 - Growing Potatoes Organically with Jim Gerritsen of Wood Prairie Family Farm -- Part 1
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
Jill McSheehy
4.7 • 830 Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Join me today as I talk with Jim Gerritsen of Wood Prairie Farms about organic potato growing.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, you are in for a treat today. If you grow potatoes or you have ever wanted to grow |
| 0:07.3 | potatoes, then this week's episode and next week's episode are ones that you will want to pay attention to, |
| 0:14.5 | take notes on, and maybe even listen a second time. I am thrilled to introduce to you Jim Garrison of Wood Prairie Family Farm. |
| 0:24.6 | He's going to give you the backstory of their farm, but what you need to know is that they develop |
| 0:29.7 | and they sell certified organic disease-free seed potatoes. If you've listened to past episodes, you know that I've grown |
| 0:39.2 | potatoes since my very first year. Some years I've had great success, and more recently, I haven't |
| 0:45.4 | had the best success, except in my race beds. They've actually done pretty well. But I'm on the |
| 0:50.8 | quest to be able to grow better potatoes, and I figured I need to talk to someone |
| 0:55.7 | who does this for a living, who knows potatoes inside and out. So I actually was thinking about |
| 1:03.2 | growing some certified organic seed potatoes side by side, the ones that I normally buy from my feed |
| 1:08.7 | store. And I am going to do that. I'm going to do a test. |
| 1:11.8 | But first, I needed to get those certified organic disease-free seed potatoes, and I wanted to |
| 1:18.5 | choose the source well. So what I did is I sent a message to Kevin over at Epic Gardening. You've |
| 1:23.8 | heard him on the podcast before, and you probably follow him, but I knew that he would |
| 1:28.4 | probably give me some suggestions on where to buy these potatoes. And he gave me the answer right away to |
| 1:35.0 | check out Wood Prairie Family Farm. And so I actually got on their website. I ordered the |
| 1:40.2 | potatoes that I wanted. And then the more I started looking at their website and researching on |
| 1:44.9 | their website, I was thinking, I would love to get someone from Wood Prairie Family Farm on the podcast |
| 1:50.2 | to talk about this. Their website was so informative and helpful. And I realized that there was a whole |
| 1:55.5 | world of potato growing that I have never known about. Sure enough, Jim from Wood Prairie Family Farm agreed to come on the podcast, |
| 2:03.5 | and I had so many questions for him. Many of them came from my dream to garden students who |
| 2:09.6 | wanted more information on growing potatoes. And as we started talking, I realized this is too long |
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