Heading to the post office to ship out more calendars! To order yours, visit www.trueloveseeds.com. 2018 Seed Keeping theme: Resilience and Resistance. This week, I'm highlighting March, which features the Lumper Potato. The Lumper Potato and its close relatives were widely grown across Ireland leading up to the great famines of 1845 and 1846. This then-novel Andean crop grew well in poor soil and could almost single-handedly feed a family, which was life changing for impoverished Irish Catholic farmers living under the harsh conditions of British colonial rule. When late blight destroyed the potatoes, poor people suffered first and hardest, as tends to happen with natural disasters; a million died and a million fled Ireland. Both the Lumper and the Irish survived, growing stronger , and fighting so future generations could live a good life. When we eat foods grown by people in poorer countries, let's hope for their resilience, triumph, and full bellies. #lumperpotatoes #thelumper #potato #heirloompotatoes #irishpotatoes #seedkeeping #seedkeepingcalendar #2018seedkeepingcalendar #resilienceandresistance