Saturday, September 14, 2013

Potato Picking

Looks like Scouting
Troop 321 invited Pack 321 to go potato picking and share a picnic lunch today. For the past couple of years we've driven down to Melvin Johnson's Farm to glean from their fields what the automated machines miss. It's a great experience for the kids and a real boon to our local food pantries. 

After walking the fields in what amounted to a great, big, dirty, Easter egg hunt (the boys were thrilled), we packed up and headed over to Dawson Lake Park for lunch. The weather held out, and a few of the kids went swimming. Others beat the cattails for frogs, grasshoppers, turtles, and whatnot. 

You can find the rest of the photos in our photo gallery.

As for the potatoes; we kept some for ourselves, but most went to local food pantries.