Green Options

Just 15 minutes down the road from Sarah Palin’s stomping grounds of Wasilla, there is a party going on. A potato party. Bill Campbell, a local agronomist, hosted the Palmer Potato Pageant at the Railroad Depot in Palmer, AK.

The litany of alliteration unfolded with a planned Potato Potluck, exhibition of potato paraphernalia, potato poetry, and a potato party in the pomme de terre province of Palmer.

All bad puns aside (seriously), many societies would not have survived if it wasn’t for the humble potato, and some almost didn’t make it because of the potato. In fact, each American eats over 100 pounds of potatoes a year, and we are not alone. The United States produced just over 17.5 million tons of potatoes in 2007, which was a slight decrease from the previous year, but still enough to put us at the number 5 spot worldwide.