You knew it would happen - I found a potato blog!

We are always looking to update recipes and find new fun recipes to make here at Wicked Raven and sometimes it's just for something new and different.  The other day I was looking through a Better Homes and Gardens that a friend loaned me and lo and behold there it was - an ad for "recipes and potato loving bloggers" at www.potatogoodness.com  http://www.potatogoodness.com/  !!!

We tried the Greek Potato Casserole and although we changed a few ingredients to what we had on hand it worked and was delightful.  You also should check out the "Potato Lovers Club" under the "Hot Potato News" tab.  No folks, I am not kidding!


I was just sorting potato seed today  - some for Nana, some for the school garden and some for my garden.  We have the red white and blue collection of spuds and we have Purple majesty ready to go when we can plant (should be soon as we are having a warm spring - hope for us that it holds!).  We will also be looking for some Yukon Golds to plant and some small red potatoes as well.

We are gearing up to plant at the school this week.  We have a young man learning life skills by building raised bins for us and fixing our pallet bins for us.  We determined that we didn't get enough sun in the bin and we weren't able to get enough water to the plants with how tall they were, so he is cutting the pallets in half.  That will double the amount of bins we have and make it so even the shortest of gardener will be able to help care for the plants.

We are able to expand due to the contractor who did the siding application on our school building this past winter leaving us a few of the crates that the siding came in.  They are super heavy duty and will be great for our needs!  We are so blessed by them.  Visit Eklutna Services site for more information on this fantastic company!  Thank you Eklutna Services/Eklutna Inc. for this special donation for our garden!  There seems to be enough wood also in one of the crates that we will be able to build a small storage shed to keep our tools in!  An amazing donation for us.

Our garden this year will include our favorites from last year, expanding potatoes and tomatoes, as well as adding another bin of carrots (we'll have two now) and adding four rhubarb, a row of strawberries in one of our hugelkulture, sugar snap peas in our new raised bins, we will add two apple trees, and also a row of raspberries by the end of the summer.

Stay tuned for all of our fun adventures - and Ill be adding some pictures of the work as we progress!  Check out the potato blog though to get your own ideas of how you can use this bountiful tuber!