Hi Reddit!!! today I’m sharing the ordinary life of Ukrainians again. so today we started harvesting potatoes :)

8 comments

1. Are they collected mechanically as well? Most of the potato harvesting devices I’ve seen involve lifting the dirt and potatoes through tines so that the potatoes are retained in the vehicle. Admittedly, this was in places with very sandy soil, so the potatoes come free quite easily.

2. How much do you keep? Do you trade a lot? Do you sell at the market? Does your village share a lot of food? In the US, I feel a vast majority of us are so far removed from planting and working the land.

3. Nice potatoes!

4. That would be hard work collecting all of the potatoes by hand. I pick pears by hand at my job and that is hard enough without having to bend down too often.

5. I liked harvesting potatoes when I was young (by hand with a garden fork or prong). It made one feel connected with the land, the place where you were living. And the new potatoes always tasted waaay better than the old ones.

   Hopefully these good people will enjoy many harvests in peace and freedom!

6. Love all that you do with the Ukrainians! Thanks for sharing.

7. My Ma grew up picking potatoes, and lived in a box car with her parents and siblings.. My Ma grew up with 10 siblings and they survived off jus tortillas and potatoes.. meat was too expensive.. she’s a tough woman, as are the Ukranian people.. in Navajo potato is “mmm-muh-see”
   Mmm like asking a question, muh like mother, and see like see?

8. Im sure you have considered this, but why not attach a small trailer behind the harvester to catch the potatoes. Its gotta be easier to pick through a trailer vs picking from the ground? No need to bend over, transport to a more central point for cleaning and sorting etc. If they are in a trailer you can again innovate , where the potatoes can be easily washed and sorted more automatically. Food for thought. I love harvesting potatoes. So satisfying.