Potatoes

To Jill Overdorf of the Specialty Potato Alliance (SPA), fingerlings are the most flavorful potatoes. Ever. “Imagine the richest, most buttery flavor and multiply that by five times,” she urges. A professionally trained chef, this potato proponent has seen fingerlings rise in popularity with home cooks since European chefs introduced them in New York City restaurants ten years ago. And seeded a national hunger for a flavorful gourmet variation of the humble spud. SPA partners with two family farms—Rocky Farms LLC in Colorado’s San Luis Valley and Lehr Brothers in Bakersfield, California—who produce the bulk of fingerlings shipped. Suppliers from Idaho, Wisconsin, the Dakotas and Nebraska make this a year-round offering for consumers.

Onions, Etc. is owned by Derrell Kelso, Jr., a fifth-generation farmer. Derrell’s father migrated to California in 1960 from Merckal, Texas, where his father and grandfather were dry land farmers; Derrell’s uncle still farms there today. Derrell’s dad came to California as an employee of Chevron Chemical, known as Ortho, where he sold fertilizers and advised growers about horticultural issues. In 1969, the family started Kelso Truck Farm, where they grew five acres of Italian sweet onions, sweet corn, tomatoes, bell peppers, black eyed peas and many other crops for 300 families that canned and froze their fresh produce for the winter.

Onions, Etc. is owned by Derrell Kelso, Jr., a fifth-generation farmer. Derrell’s father migrated to California in 1960 from Merckal, Texas, where his father and grandfather were dry land farmers; Derrell’s uncle still farms there today. Derrell’s dad came to California as an employee of Chevron Chemical, known as Ortho, where he sold fertilizers and advised growers about horticultural issues. In 1969, the family started Kelso Truck Farm, where they grew five acres of Italian sweet onions, sweet corn, tomatoes, bell peppers, black eyed peas and many other crops for 300 families that canned and froze their fresh produce for the winter.

To Jill Overdorf of the Specialty Potato Alliance (SPA), fingerlings are the most flavorful potatoes. Ever. “Imagine the richest, most buttery flavor and multiply that by five times,” she urges. A professionally trained chef, this potato proponent has seen fingerlings rise in popularity with home cooks since European chefs introduced them in New York City restaurants ten years ago. And seeded a national hunger for a flavorful gourmet variation of the humble spud. SPA partners with two family farms—Rocky Farms LLC in Colorado’s San Luis Valley and Lehr Brothers in Bakersfield, California—who produce the bulk of fingerlings shipped. Suppliers from Idaho, Wisconsin, the Dakotas and Nebraska make this a year-round offering for consumers.

To Jill Overdorf of the Specialty Potato Alliance (SPA), fingerlings are the most flavorful potatoes. Ever. “Imagine the richest, most buttery flavor and multiply that by five times,” she urges. A professionally trained chef, this potato proponent has seen fingerlings rise in popularity with home cooks since European chefs introduced them in New York City restaurants ten years ago. And seeded a national hunger for a flavorful gourmet variation of the humble spud. SPA partners with two family farms—Rocky Farms LLC in Colorado’s San Luis Valley and Lehr Brothers in Bakersfield, California—who produce the bulk of fingerlings shipped. Suppliers from Idaho, Wisconsin, the Dakotas and Nebraska make this a year-round offering for consumers.

Onions, Etc. is owned by Derrell Kelso, Jr., a fifth-generation farmer. Derrell’s father migrated to California in 1960 from Merckal, Texas, where his father and grandfather were dry land farmers; Derrell’s uncle still farms there today. Derrell’s dad came to California as an employee of Chevron Chemical, known as Ortho, where he sold fertilizers and advised growers about horticultural issues. In 1969, the family started Kelso Truck Farm, where they grew five acres of Italian sweet onions, sweet corn, tomatoes, bell peppers, black eyed peas and many other crops for 300 families that canned and froze their fresh produce for the winter.