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"No part of the world is better fitted by nature for growing potatos than the mountain districts of Colorado."

Call to all potato growers in the Roaring Fork Valley


We are on a mission. and it is moving forward folks!!
We have found our potato patrimony and it is the Red McClure!





In "The Potato"  written by E.H. Grubb & W.S. Guilford in 1912,   Carbondale was mentioned as, " it is in this sort of country that the potato is found growing wild.  The excellence of the potatoes grown in Carbondale first attracted the interest of the particular hotel and dining-car trade."
 The book  then goes on to boast, " when that time comes Colorado will produce twenty million bushels annually instead of six million, as at present, and the fame of the Carbondale potato will be equal to that of the Rocky Ford Cantalope."

"No part of the world is better fitted by nature for growing potatos than the mountain districts of Colorado."  "The Carbondale potato will be found one of the delicacies of the World."







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