Greetings from the high deserts of California! I’m always amazed by the power of UA-cam! I cannot help but laugh that I would be so enthralled by potatoes from Maine! I’m thoroughly enjoying your channel! Thank you for your hard work and willingness to share your delightful corner of this amazing world with us. Even though my branch of the family tree no longer works the earth we have a deep love and respect for those that do! Carry on and be safe!
Thank you very much Christopher! I’m really happy you enjoy the videos. It always surprises me that people other than Maine like to watch us. Thank you for your support to all farmer 💚😊
Molly your work on the potato packing line is fascinating love to see all the parts of your job, very interesting you must love doing something different every day.😊
I’m glad you like seeing the duck! I would show more of them, but I don’t think most of my viewers enjoy the quackery! Haha I throw them in as much as I can. They were blocking me in the driveways last week. I had to get out of the truck and heard them away! Haha
Nice work! If you stop and think about it potatoes get a lot of mileage on them by the time they make it to your dinner table. Just never really thought about it till watching your videos.
@@BellsFarming Molly I bet potatoes do get the most mileage I wouldn’t think carrots or onions would. but don’t know would be interesting to know though.
I buy vidalia onions from A&M farms in Georgia. I was shocked that seedlings are planted by hand and several months later are harvested and replanted in another field until mature. That’s mileage that you won’t find in carrots or potatoes. They have a videography started on this years crop on UA-cam if anyone is interested. It will not deter me from watching Molly’s vids tho, way more entertaining.
Little potatoes need love also. Good quality control with removing the ones exposed to light. I enjoyed the process with the large totes on the forklift that drop down like sand in an hourglass. Thanks for sharing more of the packing process Molly.
I am really glad to see the potato sorting/packaging operation from the inside. I think the contrast with the sweet corn packing will be interesting. I started watching shortly after you started your channel so we haven’t seen much sweet corn activity yet. From South Georgia ( almost Florida) Thanks!
Yeah, you are a lot of fun to watch. I’ve learned a lot, and I’m about to plant some potatoes this year and I’m looking forward to the seed cutting video. You have a great personality, the smiles are great. Also- not sure if I mentioned it before, but I think you cut off your maple sap collecting way too early- I’ve gotten more sap here in Freeport Maine since you stopped collecting than I got in the first half of the season. I’ve been collecting all of March, and the storm on Thursday this week may even kickoff another round!
Thank toy so much for watching😁 everyone needs to smile more! Haha Shane and I kinda just quit this year. He is the only who does all the work for collecting the sap and boiling. So I don’t blame him if he doesn’t want to keep going hahah. Lots to do around the farm. But I will be missing the syrup later in the year I’m sure. I guess that is why it’s just a hobby for us. Do it while it’s fun, and when you’re not having fun.. don’t do it hahaha maybe I’ll need some syrup from you this year!
Thanks Molly, really enjoy watching your videos, looking forward to following you a whole season,caught you near the end last year. Your camping trip in the woods was fun and skiing with the dogs. Beautiful dogs by the way. Keep ‘em coming, thanks for sharing! From WA state.
Relatively new subscriber here. I’m thoroughly impressed with your operation! If I were local to you, I would totally volunteer to work with you just to be apart of such an amazing farm!✌🏻❤️🇺🇸🙏🏻🌎
On the one hand it is nice to get those cleaned potatoes processed and all that, but on the other hand a part of me goes “I just cleaned that!” lol maybe because I have kids? Who knows lol! Yet work on the farm is never done! Great video as always!
Nice video again. Filling the big bags works well with large potatoes. Less with the smaller potatoes. I think that spillage is because there is space between the drivers. The smaller potatoes get stuck in there and are therefore not unloaded into the big bag but fall off later. Greetings Jilles
Yeah, I figured it out towards the end of the day. Haha thank you for watching! How are your guys season going? We are getting another foot of snow this week.
Molly that is awesome but hey please send me a tote bag of the small ones shouldn't cost much right shipping to south dakota hahaha. those little ones my grandmother and aunts adored. sure we children cleaned them but grandma used them in soups stews even fried for breakfast in the morning. Hungry cowboys need a good hearty breakfast she said. so it was fresh farm eggs fried potatoes and fresh bread and her homemade butter and jam. But if was there i would pick up a whole one. hahah what i could do with that.. hahaha we,...me and my elders here hahah we all love the small potatoes.. thanks for sharing your videos of family the dogs how you and Shane work together should be a pre-requisite to all relationships awesome work you guys do,.. thanks for sharing, stay safe, take care, stay warm....you live the adventure.... most people dream about
Very interesting process, Looks like a lot of of manual effort to make sure it works smoothly. You guys make it look easy. Do you use the small potatoes for cattle feed?
Another great video. Looks like you also get your 4-foot pallet boxes from Travis Kearney in Mars Hill. We grow Maine Certified Seed Potatoes in Bridgewater. Come visit us when you're up next time! Jim
My family raised seed for 50 years in Washington St. . I have the greatest admiration for your operation , very interesting . I had never been in a fresh pack shed . What variety are you growing ? Can't wait for the seed cutting operation video , plus planting .
another vlog cleaning up everything big bins and bags and processing again if I understand and sorting immediately for reprocessing again for sale I understand and the woman gives a tour of the company well done have a good Easter see you next time Feedback
Hey Molly, take your time on the blooper reel. I’d rather see some good clips and that might take some time. Also just want to congratulate you on how much your channel has grown. Because of the monetization of UA-cam channels there is a real potential to make a descent income from it. I saw a podcast with millennial farmer and he said he now makes more on UA-cam than he does farming, and he has a pretty big farm up in Wisconsin. Keep on keppn on, I believe you are going to do well!
Thank you Edward! I’m happy people enjoy the videos. It’s hard to tell how many people will be interested in a Maine potato farm :) but the channel is doing better than I though for just starting.
Yeah they are a ton. Well the cleaning never ends too! Haha cleaning up after the pile is gone because we don’t need the washer and large hopper. But things will get cleaned again, and again haha
Didn’t know that your tote bags have chutes on the bottom. I have been wondering how you get the potatoes out of them. Looks like your last sorting before cutting for seeds.
Mornin Miss Moll! At what temp do you keep the potatoes during storage, and what would the difference be if you used last years potatoes for this year's crop versus buying seed potatoes? 😊
Hey! Well they stay around 38-44 between the old side and the newer storage building. We try and empty the old side first. That will heat up quicker with the warm weather. In order to plant your own potatoes for seed, technically you have to grow “seed” we have done it in the past. But they gave found that this is easier, and we get to sell more of the crop we grow.
molly you do know that those tiny potatoes are sold as gourmet potatoes at walmart right? just saying.. and evrytimei go there they for some unknow reason are almost sold out every time.. so you might want to look into that. now me i know big potatoes come from small ones.. but i am guessing your average walmart shopper does not know that. and then say they are the creamiest of the potatoes too so just a few words and WOW they are being sold.... by the truck loads... funny too in walmart chickens?... they no longer have feet they have paws according to walmart. chicken paws who knew. But thanks for the video i learn more and more about potatoes and how they are commercially brought from farm to my table awesome. Wish y grandmother was alive to today to see this operation.. she would be wowed for sure. Before it was just cut a potato and the piece had a couple with eyes on it dig a hole, plant, water, and when they grew up and died back we harvested them.
We have been trying to get a market for little potatoes. Currently we are trying to get into the local school system. They would be great for school lunches, or senior center.
It’s not cooled. It’s just cool in there. Once we are down to about 100 tote bags we will put them in the cooler and turn the units on. That is usually around June
I think the flap arms help guide the potatoes onto the lanes. The sensors that are In from of the blue arms is what tell the sensor to bring potatoes forward. :)
Good eye, I actually shot in a higher resolution! I did get myself a second GoPro. I was trying it out. It uses 3 times the battery. But if it makes that much of a difference I will keep doing it. I’ll have to watch it on the tv tonight :)
Yeah we do keep them for 10 months. The potato storage building explained video talk about how the storage building works. It’s mostly temperature, humidity, dark, airflow, and sprout inhibitor applies after they are washed.
They have never called from the forks, but there has been a few times that someone doesn’t tie the bottoms where the shoot is. You don’t know it until you lift it off the pallet. That makes a little mess. But they know how to fix it with light to many potatoes hitting the floor. I think there have been tote bags and tip over though.
Molly, about three videos back you were deep frying some potatoes and you used a device I’ve seen before but usually are very old establishments too slice up the potato, that will be so handy for the boys and I, is that an item you would ever sell are of your shop to customers or is it something that if I knew anything about cooking I wouldn’t know where to look for it and what to ask for?
Haha we wouldn’t sell them. They are fry cutter made for a restaurant kitchen. You should be able to find one online. This one needs to be bolted to the wall or counter top. I’m sure there are smaller versions available you don’t have to mount :)
So I will usually just break the sprouts off and use them as normal. If the potato is really soft then I’ll pitch them. But I tend to be less picky about how hard a potato is. They are still good if they have eyes and are a little less firm.
Yeah I guess. Our newtec grader only has 4 outlet lanes. So sometime we have to just put a size range into the bag that are not graded well because all of the lanes are busy. Sometime we have a lane we can dedicate to just green potatoes and junk. Looking back now, it would have been nice to order a 5th lane on the machine for the junk. Possible we can add onto it some day.
Molly, Do you guys sell potatoes there or are they only wholesale? Do you do tours of the facility? I will be going to Bar Harbor to help one of my friends do a heating job in two weeks and I'd love to see the farm if you guys do that
Hey there, we do have a little farm store where we sell potatoes. I currently don’t to “tours” but I can do a walk through and talk a little about the building. Seems like a long way to come from Bar harbor!
I live in Connecticut and will be driving through to go there I was thinking on the ride home. My family loves the little potatoes. I’ll send a reply closer to the dates I’ll be in the area thank you so much you and Shane are a great couple
We have in the past. Couple of reasons. We are able to sell everything we grow for the most part, we get the new genetics/ generations of seed, and we get to support another farm when we buy seed:)
So nice to be greeted by smiles! Everyone is happy and those potatoes look great! 😊
😁😁💚
Molly you are a hard working lady. Keep up the great videos
Thank you!
Your videos are great. Keep them coming. 👍
I love your videos very entertaining and satisfying to watch and relax
Thank you very much!
The smiles you and Shane exchanged were heartwarming. Thank you for sharing your process. Educational. 👍
Thank you very much for watching us 😊 tractor hood happening today! Video soon :)
Molly always gives the BEST VIEWS of the operation! 😊
I saw what you did there.....👍
That sounds really cool! I will have to watch that! Thank you
Greetings from the high deserts of California! I’m always amazed by the power of UA-cam! I cannot help but laugh that I would be so enthralled by potatoes from Maine! I’m thoroughly enjoying your channel! Thank you for your hard work and willingness to share your delightful corner of this amazing world with us. Even though my branch of the family tree no longer works the earth we have a deep love and respect for those that do! Carry on and be safe!
Thank you very much Christopher! I’m really happy you enjoy the videos. It always surprises me that people other than Maine like to watch us. Thank you for your support to all farmer 💚😊
Molly your work on the potato packing line is fascinating love to see all the parts of your job, very interesting you must love doing something different every day.😊
Yes, I really enjoy this work. Things are always busy, new stuff all the time. And I love working in the tractors!
As always great video Molly still watching all your videos from WV
Thank you very much! 💚
Looking forward to the cutting of seed. For us Easter was cutting time. Thanks for your video and Easter Blessings to Bell Farms !🇺🇸
Yes soon!
Another good video I always find it interesting
Thank you!
Those are good looking potatoes. Thanks again for bringing me along. I love spuds you know.
Hi everyone. I hope you had a Great HAPPY EASRTER with your family 😊 God Bless your family and Animals. And love seeing your DUCKs
I’m glad you like seeing the duck! I would show more of them, but I don’t think most of my viewers enjoy the quackery! Haha I throw them in as much as I can. They were blocking me in the driveways last week. I had to get out of the truck and heard them away! Haha
Nice work! If you stop and think about it potatoes get a lot of mileage on them by the time they make it to your dinner table. Just never really thought about it till watching your videos.
Hey there, yeah you’re right! I wonder if potatoes get the most mileage for stored crops. I wonder how much mileage carrots and onions get :)
@@BellsFarming
Molly I bet potatoes do get the most mileage I wouldn’t think carrots or onions would. but don’t know would be interesting to know though.
I’ll have to ask my neighbor farm. He goes carrots and onions and cabbage. Also potatoes he would have a good idea
I buy vidalia onions from A&M farms in Georgia. I was shocked that seedlings are planted by hand and several months later are harvested and replanted in another field until mature. That’s mileage that you won’t find in carrots or potatoes. They have a videography started on this years crop on UA-cam if anyone is interested. It will not deter me from watching Molly’s vids tho, way more entertaining.
Another Fab Video!
Looking Amazing Xx🇬🇧❤️
Thank you!
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Nice profile shot! 😉
Great Golly Miss MOLLY, You guys have lot's of potatoes to pack . You are helping to feed the Country, keep up the Good Work. Thanks for the tour. 😊
Glad that you have fun making the videos. You certainly have great talent. It's great to watch how y'all do it.
You manage to make the humble potato so interesting. Thank you.
I’m so glad you enjoy learning about the foods you eat. I find it very interesting :)
Little potatoes need love also. Good quality control with removing the ones exposed to light. I enjoyed the process with the large totes on the forklift that drop down like sand in an hourglass. Thanks for sharing more of the packing process Molly.
Thank you Steve!
I can’t believe you’re all at work and im not even dressed yet . Great work as always and best to you today and everyday..
Thanks Molly!!
I am really glad to see the potato sorting/packaging operation from the inside. I think the contrast with the sweet corn packing will be interesting. I started watching shortly after you started your channel so we haven’t seen much sweet corn activity yet. From South Georgia ( almost Florida) Thanks!
Hey there! Thank you very much for watching all this time. I am excited to show everyone the sweet corn season. I bet the weather is nice down there!
Nice looking jeans Molly! You have a lot of energy. Keep the videos coming.
You are one hard worker. Great video.
Thank you!
Facinating process Molly. Thank you for sharing.
Molly and the crew are at work again!! Have a great week guys!!:)
Potatoes are like people, they come in all shapes and sizes.
Thank you! You too!
Thank you Molly, Shane and crew,interesting as always,,small new potatoes slightly boiled with butter melted over them uumm delicious 😊 UK 🇬🇧
Yum yum! Now I want some
Yeah, you are a lot of fun to watch. I’ve learned a lot, and I’m about to plant some potatoes this year and I’m looking forward to the seed cutting video. You have a great personality, the smiles are great. Also- not sure if I mentioned it before, but I think you cut off your maple sap collecting way too early- I’ve gotten more sap here in Freeport Maine since you stopped collecting than I got in the first half of the season. I’ve been collecting all of March, and the storm on Thursday this week may even kickoff another round!
Thank toy so much for watching😁 everyone needs to smile more! Haha Shane and I kinda just quit this year. He is the only who does all the work for collecting the sap and boiling. So I don’t blame him if he doesn’t want to keep going hahah. Lots to do around the farm. But I will be missing the syrup later in the year I’m sure. I guess that is why it’s just a hobby for us. Do it while it’s fun, and when you’re not having fun.. don’t do it hahaha maybe I’ll need some syrup from you this year!
Molly, great videos! Really appreciate the insights into the operations, and your other activities. Keep up the great work!
Thank you for watching :)
Great video again, thanks.
Thanks Molly, really enjoy watching your videos, looking forward to following you a whole season,caught you near the end last year. Your camping trip in the woods was fun and skiing with the dogs. Beautiful dogs by the way. Keep ‘em coming, thanks for sharing! From WA state.
Thank you so much for joining us :)
Relatively new subscriber here. I’m thoroughly impressed with your operation! If I were local to you, I would totally volunteer to work with you just to be apart of such an amazing farm!✌🏻❤️🇺🇸🙏🏻🌎
Awesome! Thank you very much for watching and subscribing:)
Hi Molly, Happy Easter to you all thanks for taking us a long a great video to see how things get done 🫶👍
Thank you! Have a great week!
Nice video little girl thanks for sharing hope you all had a great Easter ❤.
We did thank you!
Another Great Video 👍 Great content, keep up the great work!
This is the way to start off a great week!
Have a wonderful day!
Thanks for the video, you do excellent tater tutelage.
All good times come to an end, back to work and make your business prosper.
Thanks Molly! 🐾🥔🌻
Great video always staying busy..keep up the good work..thanks
Thank Paul have a good week! I’ll be in touch
@@BellsFarming sounds good.
On the one hand it is nice to get those cleaned potatoes processed and all that, but on the other hand a part of me goes “I just cleaned that!” lol maybe because I have kids? Who knows lol! Yet work on the farm is never done! Great video as always!
Hahah it’s a cycle! Nothing stays clean! But I do enjoy making it clean for a day :)
@@BellsFarming reminds me of my kids. Sure it’s clean when company comes over, but it’s a constant struggle lol
Hard at work as always ❤
THANKS!
Oh my Molly, you are just so cute :)
😊
You're up early! Have a great week! Rain with the possibility of snow all week here. Yuk!
We are getting snow this week :(
Omg, you and Shane crack me up😂.
😅
It's how you both smiled in the beginning. Love it
Nice video again. Filling the big bags works well with large potatoes. Less with the smaller potatoes. I think that spillage is because there is space between the drivers. The smaller potatoes get stuck in there and are therefore not unloaded into the big bag but fall off later. Greetings Jilles
sorry my answer was too quick to your question
Yeah, I figured it out towards the end of the day. Haha thank you for watching! How are your guys season going? We are getting another foot of snow this week.
Thank you for the answer anyways :)
Great video. Get ready to plow.
I was trying to see how much snow we were going to get Thursday! I guess I was wrong about the early start, and the last spit of winter last week haha
@@BellsFarming looks like 12 to 18 inches! UGH!
Molly that is awesome but hey please send me a tote bag of the small ones shouldn't cost much right shipping to south dakota hahaha. those little ones my grandmother and aunts adored. sure we children cleaned them but grandma used them in soups stews even fried for breakfast in the morning. Hungry cowboys need a good hearty breakfast she said. so it was fresh farm eggs fried potatoes and fresh bread and her homemade butter and jam. But if was there i would pick up a whole one. hahah what i could do with that.. hahaha we,...me and my elders here hahah we all love the small potatoes.. thanks for sharing your videos of family the dogs how you and Shane work together should be a pre-requisite to all relationships awesome work you guys do,.. thanks for sharing, stay safe, take care, stay warm....you live the adventure.... most people dream about
Thank you very much for your comment! I always enjoy them:) thank you for all your support. I want breakfast at your grandmothers :)
Very interesting process, Looks like a lot of of manual effort to make sure it works smoothly. You guys make it look easy.
Do you use the small potatoes for cattle feed?
Yes we will try and sell most of the small ones. But they do end up as cow feed.
Spooky in that room. Don't let the potato ghosts get you!
Hahah it can be a bit spooky
Another great video. Looks like you also get your 4-foot pallet boxes from Travis Kearney in Mars Hill. We grow Maine Certified Seed Potatoes in Bridgewater. Come visit us when you're up next time! Jim
We will have to do that Jim!
My family raised seed for 50 years in Washington St. . I have the greatest admiration for your operation , very interesting . I had never been in a fresh pack shed . What variety are you growing ? Can't wait for the seed cutting operation video , plus planting .
Hey there! We go Norwis, and yellows. We are trying new yellows this ear. I forget the name. Constance I think
another vlog cleaning up everything big bins and bags and processing again if I understand and sorting immediately for reprocessing again for sale I understand and the woman gives a tour of the company well done have a good Easter see you next time
Feedback
Thank you very much!
Neice lady
Hey Molly, take your time on the blooper reel. I’d rather see some good clips and that might take some time. Also just want to congratulate you on how much your channel has grown. Because of the monetization of UA-cam channels there is a real potential to make a descent income from it. I saw a podcast with millennial farmer and he said he now makes more on UA-cam than he does farming, and he has a pretty big farm up in Wisconsin. Keep on keppn on, I believe you are going to do well!
Thank you Edward! I’m happy people enjoy the videos. It’s hard to tell how many people will be interested in a Maine potato farm :) but the channel is doing better than I though for just starting.
You sure do move tators!
Molly for President, we need an honest hard worker, True Patriot woman.
It's raining potatoes! (Dropping from the conveyor).Lol
Hahah this was funny! I genuinely figured out the reason why potatoes rain as I made the video that day :)
Do those bulka bags hold about a ton? Potatoes never stop. I thought you cleaned everything up in preparation for seed? Thanks for the video.
Yeah they are a ton. Well the cleaning never ends too! Haha cleaning up after the pile is gone because we don’t need the washer and large hopper. But things will get cleaned again, and again haha
Didn’t know that your tote bags have chutes on the bottom. I have been wondering how you get the potatoes out of them. Looks like your last sorting before cutting for seeds.
Fun video. I like the time lapse. How much do bag of potatoes cost? There are so many.
The prices vary. It all depends on who is buys hahahah
Thank you Miss Molly another enjoyable video.
Thank you!
plane to see you stay busy year round good to see the other fork lift in use how many people do you employ?
Hi Molly you should enter a Ms Potato Salad contest… You’d win hands down ⌛️⌛️☘️
Hahah thank you
Mornin Miss Moll! At what temp do you keep the potatoes during storage, and what would the difference be if you used last years potatoes for this year's crop versus buying seed potatoes? 😊
Hey! Well they stay around 38-44 between the old side and the newer storage building. We try and empty the old side first. That will heat up quicker with the warm weather. In order to plant your own potatoes for seed, technically you have to grow “seed” we have done it in the past. But they gave found that this is easier, and we get to sell more of the crop we grow.
molly you do know that those tiny potatoes are sold as gourmet potatoes at walmart right? just saying.. and evrytimei go there they for some unknow reason are almost sold out every time.. so you might want to look into that. now me i know big potatoes come from small ones.. but i am guessing your average walmart shopper does not know that. and then say they are the creamiest of the potatoes too so just a few words and WOW they are being sold.... by the truck loads... funny too in walmart chickens?... they no longer have feet they have paws according to walmart. chicken paws who knew. But thanks for the video i learn more and more about potatoes and how they are commercially brought from farm to my table awesome. Wish y grandmother was alive to today to see this operation.. she would be wowed for sure. Before it was just cut a potato and the piece had a couple with eyes on it dig a hole, plant, water, and when they grew up and died back we harvested them.
We have been trying to get a market for little potatoes. Currently we are trying to get into the local school system. They would be great for school lunches, or senior center.
Still lots of potatoes!
Yep! Haha
Good Morning.
Good morning :)
Do you keep all potatoes in cold storage? Do they last longer that way?
It’s not cooled. It’s just cool in there. Once we are down to about 100 tote bags we will put them in the cooler and turn the units on. That is usually around June
Do u just sell locally or all over the US?
We mostly sell to New England states.
You have such nice potatoes, no scab on them. Do you get scab in your area, and if so, how do you combat it?
Strike 85 ,ever since we started using that it’s night and day. We used to have a lot of scab, not anymore
Hi Molly. I saw the potatoes on the floor earlier and wondered about those. Do the cows get those ones?
Yes they will! 😊🐄
How does that sorter machine at 10.40 work? What is the arm doing to the potato it touches?
What are "scuffs?" Odd ball shaped potatoes?
I think the flap arms help guide the potatoes onto the lanes. The sensors that are In from of the blue arms is what tell the sensor to bring potatoes forward. :)
You must consume a bit of power with all those machines, air handling units and conveyors, is Maine power prices reasonable from Quebec hydro?
We do use some power. Honestly I’m not sure how it compares!
I'm curious about how you cut potato seeds?
I think we will start after next week
New camera Molly? Picture seems sharper. Or maybe I’m just more awake today. 😅
Good eye, I actually shot in a higher resolution! I did get myself a second GoPro. I was trying it out. It uses 3 times the battery. But if it makes that much of a difference I will keep doing it. I’ll have to watch it on the tv tonight :)
So what do you all do during the off seasons if there is one?
There isn’t one haha. 12 month farm :)
@@BellsFarming work work work n little play
Do you use RCO equipment at all?
I’m not sure what RCO is, what does it stand for?
@@BellsFarming they build farm equipment. Grand falls New Brunswick.
Are most/all of your potatoes sold in the New England area? Do any of them make it to the Midwest or other regional markets?
Most of them are sold in the New England area. Occasionally we will have some go a little further.
So, what ultimately happens to the last rejected potatoes, animal feed, compost?
Yes cow chow!
How do you keep potatoes for 10 months? can you explain the system you use to obtain the freshness? it would make a great video...Thanks
Yeah we do keep them for 10 months. The potato storage building explained video talk about how the storage building works. It’s mostly temperature, humidity, dark, airflow, and sprout inhibitor applies after they are washed.
I saw some itty bitty potatoes so now I wonder if that's where tater tots come from? 🤔😀
Hahaha
I’ve put on 20 lbs since I started watching you and all those taters!
Hahah
They spuds that were going into white barrel? Damaged?
I didn't watch all video ,my bad
Haha yea, damaged or green.
How long do potatoes keep till they start going bad?
We will sell them all. But they last us until til husky august. They will not be as pretty then, but they still make perfect French fries.
Happy Belated Easter... Has anyone dumped a full tote bag of potatoes while in the process of moving them from one location to another?
They have never called from the forks, but there has been a few times that someone doesn’t tie the bottoms where the shoot is. You don’t know it until you lift it off the pallet. That makes a little mess. But they know how to fix it with light to many potatoes hitting the floor. I think there have been tote bags and tip over though.
@@BellsFarming shoot? dats funny! I call it a chute 😆
any chance of a tour of the new quonset hut?
I can do that soon :)
Molly, about three videos back you were deep frying some potatoes and you used a device I’ve seen before but usually are very old establishments too slice up the potato, that will be so handy for the boys and I, is that an item you would ever sell are of your shop to customers or is it something that if I knew anything about cooking I wouldn’t know where to look for it and what to ask for?
Haha we wouldn’t sell them. They are fry cutter made for a restaurant kitchen. You should be able to find one online. This one needs to be bolted to the wall or counter top. I’m sure there are smaller versions available you don’t have to mount :)
@@BellsFarming Awesome, thank you so much
Do you grow potatoes for chipping???
This variety is for chipping, but all of our potatoes are for table stock
How do you keep them from growing sprouts they don’t last more than a couple weeks at home
The temperature is the biggest factor. We also use a sprout inhibitor :)
Hi again how does the PHOTO don't go BAD from seating long in back Storage units... That was FUN on your numbers 1-2-3-4 FUNNY
Hey mark. The temperature keeps them good. :) I’m glad I made you laugh
Hey Molly my wife wants to know what you do with potatoes that have started to sprout eyes? Dave D.
So I will usually just break the sprouts off and use them as normal. If the potato is really soft then I’ll pitch them. But I tend to be less picky about how hard a potato is. They are still good if they have eyes and are a little less firm.
Cowgirl up. LOL
Love me some good cowboy boots 😁
@@BellsFarming look great. Especially with the jeans tucked in
Thank you!
What do you use (seed) to plant for next season
We will use potatoes we buy from a seed farm :) they are usually pretty large. So we cut them
@@BellsFarming are they chemically treated? Like corn seeds
Molly how long do you store potatoes before they are spoiled?
We will store them u til July- august. We will sell them until they are gone
So this could be considered as refinement?
Yeah I guess. Our newtec grader only has 4 outlet lanes. So sometime we have to just put a size range into the bag that are not graded well because all of the lanes are busy. Sometime we have a lane we can dedicate to just green potatoes and junk. Looking back now, it would have been nice to order a 5th lane on the machine for the junk. Possible we can add onto it some day.
Molly, Do you guys sell potatoes there or are they only wholesale? Do you do tours of the facility? I will be going to Bar Harbor to help one of my friends do a heating job in two weeks and I'd love to see the farm if you guys do that
Hey there, we do have a little farm store where we sell potatoes. I currently don’t to “tours” but I can do a walk through and talk a little about the building. Seems like a long way to come from
Bar harbor!
I live in Connecticut and will be driving through to go there I was thinking on the ride home. My family loves the little potatoes. I’ll send a reply closer to the dates I’ll be in the area thank you so much you and Shane are a great couple
Yes please send me a message and stop by! If I’m not in the tractor I’ll be able to show you around!
Why do you buy seed potatoes rather than using your own?
We have in the past. Couple of reasons. We are able to sell everything we grow for the most part, we get the new genetics/ generations of seed, and we get to support another farm when we buy seed:)