Farmer takes to social media to show how potatoes are planted

A P.E.I. potato farmer has taken to social media to show people what exactly he does for a living.

"I have a bunch of friends that, you know, they just don't know what I do for a living,"said MartenNieuwhof.

"And I assume there's a lot of people out there that just don't know."

The 49-year-old South Rustico potato farmer has been in the business for 30 years. He farms with his two brothers and sister atBlue Bay Farms, where the video was shot.

Nieuwhofsaid people might not know that potatoes are grown from other cut up potatoes rather than from seed, nor do they know anything about the process of getting them into the ground.

"That's kind of why I made the video because most people don'tknow that."

Nieuwhofmade a video of harvesting last fall and said he got a pretty goodreaction, so he made another one this year. He shot and edited it on hisiPhoneandiPad.

"People enjoy it and they like the in-depth view of how it's done because they have no idea," he said.

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