Did you know these fun facts about potatoes? Leave a comment here on Mom’s Dinner Helper with another piece of Spud Trivia and we’ll award one person with a very special prize! Each year, there are more than 1 million acres of potatoes planted. Potatoes are the leading vegetable crop in the US with a [...]
Potato Basics Week: I Bet You Didn’t Know that Potatoes…
The potato is the world’s fourth largest food crop. Potatoes landed in Ireland in 1589 but it took nearly four decades for the potato to spread to the rest of Europe. Potatoes arrived in the United States in 1621 but Idaho, the present-day largest producer of potatoes, did not begin growing potatoes until 1836. French [...]
