Greens are good, peas are pleasant, but POTATOES are the spring treat we get most excited about here at Gildrien Farm. Friends and loyal customers will have heard this before, but new potatoes - those first, teeny early ones with tender skin glowing bright as - are a revelation every year.
Most people expect that a fresh, local tomato grown in good soil and picked at the peak of ripeness will be better than fed on chemical fertilizer and picked green so that it could withstand a 3,000 mile trip. Well, it is just as true that a little baby potato unearthed just days before from its home in healthy soil will taste better - so much better, and so different - than a giant Russet that's been bred for size, sprayed with nearly 40 pesticides, and then treated to prevent sprouting during its year in storage. Even a local, organic potato that you might still have in your root cellar from last fall will pale in comparison. Even the local, organic potatoes harvested fresh in the fall for winter storage are not nearly as good. These new spring potatoes are a delight, and we hope you like them as much as we do.
Most people expect that a fresh, local tomato grown in good soil and picked at the peak of ripeness will be better than fed on chemical fertilizer and picked green so that it could withstand a 3,000 mile trip. Well, it is just as true that a little baby potato unearthed just days before from its home in healthy soil will taste better - so much better, and so different - than a giant Russet that's been bred for size, sprayed with nearly 40 pesticides, and then treated to prevent sprouting during its year in storage. Even a local, organic potato that you might still have in your root cellar from last fall will pale in comparison. Even the local, organic potatoes harvested fresh in the fall for winter storage are not nearly as good. These new spring potatoes are a delight, and we hope you like them as much as we do.
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