Buy Local!

The Metzger Heritage Farm cart at Costa's Shursave Food Shop in Coudersport has been re-stocked with our luscious certified organic potatoes.  By shopping locally and putting a bag of Potter County organic potatoes in your cart, you are supporting the local economy.

Here's a recipe tailored to our gourmet potato assortment. It's adapted from Gourmet magazine. With organic potatoes, you have no fears about pesticide residue on the skins, so why not just scrub them and leave the skins on?

Red White and Blue Potato Salad

1. • 1 cup chopped green onions, divided
   • 1/2 cup Greek-style plain yogurt
   • 1/4 cup sour cream
   • 1/4 cup mayonnaise
   • 2 Tb. white wine vinegar
   • 3 tsp. Dijon mustard
   • 2 teaspoons sugar
   • 2 teaspoons salt (divided)
   • 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
2. • 2-lb. bag of Metzger Heritage Farm Certified Organic Gourmet Potato Assortment
3. • 10-ounce package frozen peas, thawed
   • 1 cup crumbled blue cheese (about 4 ounces)
4. • Paprika
5. Whisk 1/2 cup green onions with yogurt, sour cream, mayonnaise, vinegar, mustard, sugar, 1 tsp. salt and pepper in medium bowl. Cover and chill dressing while preparing potatoes.
6. Place all potatoes in large saucepan. (You may want to chunk them in order to have them all be the same size so they cook evenly.) Add enough water to cover by 1 inch. Add teaspoon of salt. Bring to boil, reduce heat to medium, and boil until tender – time will vary depending on size and variety of potatoes. Drain and cool to room temperature.
7. Cut potatoes into 1/2-inch-thick slices and place in large bowl. Add dressing, peas, and blue cheese; toss gently. Cover and chill at least 2 hours and up to 1 day.
8. Sprinkle potato salad with paprika and remaining 1/2 cup green onions just before serving.

Marketing Vegetables?

I'll bet that almost everyone recognizes this advertising icon! The Green Giant (he didn't become jolly until later) was the brainchild of an advertising executive from the Minnesota Valley Canning Company from LeSueur, MN in the late 1920s.  He was not an overnight success and it took a couple of redesigns before he shed his scowl and bearskin outfit to become the smiling, leafy mascot we know today. The canning company took his name in the 1950s and now Green Giant is a vegetable processing subsidiary of food giant (no pun intended) General Mills.
I'm the little person in the foreground, walking up the path to visit this 55-ft. behemoth which is located at the midpoint of Interstate 90 Blue Earth, Minnesota. Arthur and I were two of the 10,000+ folks who visited this small park in Blue Earth, Minnesota last year.
As I scanned through the photo library to retrieve a photo to accompany this post, I was originally looking for a picture of me standing up on the pedestal with the Giant. However, this picture really better tells the story. We're the little guys, carefully tending our vegetable patches and orchards in the shadow of the giants.