DHS Interact Club Plants Spuds

The Dexter High School Interact Club planted potatoes to be donated to a local food bank next fall.

Dexter High School Interact members, Rotarians and their families gathered at the Klawender farm on May 7 to kick off the 2011 Potato Project.  Under cool and sunny skies the group laid down black plastic, cut seed potatoes and planted two long rows of spuds.  Rotarian Stephanie Klawender and her father, John, taught the group all the techniques needed to complete the project efficiently.

The Potato Project began in the Fall of 2010 when Rotarian Klawender offered to donate some of her potato harvest to the local food bank Faith In Action if the Interact Club would come dig them.  The first harvest yielded about 150 pounds of potatoes and a few snakes.  The Interact Club liked that project so well they requested to do it again, this time doing the planting as well as the harvesting.  It is an activity that bridges the summer break since the current crop will be harvested first thing in the 2011-12 school year. 

With a bit of luck, this year's crop could yield up to 600 pounds of potatoes.  Stay tuned to find out!