BANGOR DAILY NEWS • January 26, 2023
Before sending products to buyers in places like California, Kansas, Alaska and New York, staff at Wood Prairie Family Farm in Bridgewater, which sells certified organic seed potatoes, have to decide if it’s safe to ship, and in which direction. It’s common for farmers to study climatological patterns for planting and harvesting. But as one of the only mail-order seed potato shippers in the country that ships 10 months a year, the farm has to plot the weather to stay in business.