Perhaps when shopping for spuds for your favorite potato salad or gratin, you've noticed bags of tubers labeled "Healthy Grown."
If you did, you might have glossed over the name, thinking it to be just another meaningless marketing pitch. Healthy? Well, duh. It's a potato.
In fact, it means quite a lot.
If the potatoes could talk, they might say, "No, we're not organic – but we're darn close!"
Back in 1996, before "sustainable agriculture" was a household phrase, a groundbreaking, collaborative effort was launched among the University of Wisconsin's College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the Wisconsin Potato and Vegetable Growers Association and the World Wildlife Fund.
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