What's New at Moose Tubers

Welcome to our 24th listing of high-quality certified seed potatoes. We also offer Dutch-grown onion sets, shallots and Maine-grown sunchokes and potato onions. Our extensive potato list, over 30 varieties of organic and conventional, ranges from recent releases to old heirlooms, from early-maturing moist red-skinned boilers to late-maturing dry russets for storage. A wide selection of colors, textures and flavors will enchant your eye and tantalize your palate. How to choose? For an overall comparison see the variety chart click here.

The thing about farming is that you just can’t complain. Sure your truck won’t start, the radish crop bolted, the slugs were downright rowdy in the greenhouse, and you couldn’t even guess what’s around the corner. But how could you subject yourself to anything less?

No matter your scale, if you read this catalog, you probably like the idea of turning seeds, soil, and sun into supper. Whether you enjoy the tranquility of a quiet hour’s work hilling your potato patch by hoe, or the fortitude of your 45-horse-powered hilling disks, a season like last year brought out the grit and tenacity in all of us. When we are feeding our families, apathy just won’t do; so after continuous hard rains we had nothing to do but brave the overgrown sea of weeds and continue.

When it’s good, it’s real good. Have you ever seen a melon crop like in 2007? And the elegance of a flawless Japanese eggplant…Inch-thick chops on the grill can relieve even the most unnerving of farming casualties. When you grow your own food and trade with your neighbors, your family’s cost of living can be kept reasonably low. And who needs a television when so many ordinary farm chores turn into a comedy of horrors?

But for now, let’s stick with this: quality of life. When your days are full of the soil, and the sky, and the critters, its hard to argue with your luck. And who wouldn’t rather be wrestling a screeching hog into a livestock trailer? And whether you ordered five or five thousand pounds of potato seed, nothing compares to a trip to the supermarket when you don’t buy any produce because—hot dang—you grew it all yourself. While we cannot control drought, natural disasters, climatic flukes, hardship, heartbreak, or long-lost luck, we can continue to feed our families. (If you are reading this, it means you survived the 2009 growing season!)

I come to Moose Tubers from South Paw Farm, a small vegetable and livestock operation in Unity, Maine. Our first year, 2009, was a season full of ruckus, but we began to build our markets, raised a small bank of garlic seed, and put away enough for the winter. But next year! What will South Paw pursue? Get eggplant off the hook, a small seed-potato crop, another weekday market, better record keeping, more lambs eating beets, fewer strangers, a tractor, mower, harrow, a good road, and this could continue on…

So cheers, here we go again. Back at it with rugged hearts and high hopes for prosperity. I’d love to hear your feedback and any thoughts on our selection. Keep dreaming big, working hard, and reaping the season. And just remember, it can’t be worse than last year.

Margaret Liebman

Fedco Seeds, PO Box 520, Waterville, ME 04903
(207) 873-7333

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