From his pickup truck, Robbie Irving points to a wide irrigation system providing water to hundreds of acres of plants on the Caribou potato farm that his family has harvested since 1936. Irving's ...

Peter Foster sorts through potatoes as they are unloaded onto a conveyor at a potato house owned by Bartlett Farms in Littleton. Credit: Alexander MacDougal / Houlton Pioneer Times Your donation, in ...

When a new variety of potato called the Caribou Russet was released in 2015, it became the top seed potato variety planted in Maine. Developing a new potato variety typically takes 10 to 12 years. The ...

Potatoes grown in a field in Northfield get unloaded at Barnwood Valley Farm in Hadley to be washed, sorted, packaged and shipped to their various vendors. Staff Photo/Carol Lollis Sign up for the ...

“It’s been more than 100 years since herds of woodland caribou graced the state of Maine. At least we can still claim the potato.” Thus opens the description in this year’s Fedco seed catalog of the ...

Maine’s Aroostook County — the size of Connecticut and Rhode Island put together — is way north. Bordering the Canadian provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick, many of its people identify as ...

“As I See It,” a new weekly photo column by Pulitzer Prize winner Stan Grossfeld, brings the stories of New England to Globe readers. Grossfeld introduces us to workers at hand-harvested potato farms ...

The striped Colorado potato beetle is one of the most notorious destroyers of potato plants, but it isn’t the only bug that plagues Maine farmers and gardeners. From pesticide application using GPS ...