The Last Harvest: Fleming brothers retire from growing seed potatoes
Neal and Pat Fleming stand in front of a mountain of seed potatoes – their final harvest after 70 years as a family business. (Kristi Niemeyer/Leader)
Neal Fleming and brother Greg prepare to harvest this year's crop of seed potatoes. (Mike O'Halloran photo)
Seed potatoes are loaded into a truck at the Fleming farm west of Pablo, and headed for a cellar where they'll nap until spring. (Mike O'Halloran photo)
Neal and Pat Fleming stand in front of a mountain of seed potatoes – their final harvest after 70 years as a family business. (Kristi Niemeyer/Leader)
Back in the 1950s, the Flemings Brothers initially called their business Purple Ribbon Potatoes. (Kristi Niemeyer/Leader)
The Fleming brothers, Pat and Neal, stand in front of their final crop of seed potatoes, heaped into a knobby mountain at one of their cellars near Pablo. Fans work nonstop to control the temperature from now until next spring, when those spuds will be sorted, graded and inspected before the brothers’ final shipment heads to Washington. ...
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