Wisconsin Healthy Grown® Potatoes Featured on Wisconsin Foodie

Alsum Farms & Produce will be featured on Wisconsin Foodie on Feb. 20 on PBS and March 6 on PBS Milwaukee

The Wisconsin Healthy Grown® Program and its farmers, including Alsum Farms & Produce, will be featured on Wisconsin Foodie, a three-time Emmy© Award-winning TV show on Thursday, February 20 at 7:30 pm CST on PBS and March 6 on PBS Milwaukee. (Check your local listings)

Tune in to get a front-row seat to Wisconsin Healthy Grown® potato farmers, their multi-generational family farms, the importance of buying local, and the sustainable ways they feed families with the highest-quality potatoes and vegetables. 

Wisconsin Foodie host and chef Luke Zahm sits down with some of the state’s potato farmers, including Alsum Farms & Produce, to take a deeper look at their farms, the crops they produce, their connection to the Wisconsin Healthy Grown® Program, why it’s important, and the benefit of the Wisconsin Healthy Grown® Program for consumers.

Since the mid-90s, the Wisconsin Healthy Grown® Program has helped Wisconsin potato growers speak on an even greater level with their customers about the sustainable ways they produce potatoes and conserve Mother Nature’s resources. This includes, but is not limited to, regularly conducting prescribed burns on their land which aids in restoring natural ecosystems and supporting native plants and animals.

Other highlights of the Wisconsin potatoes episode on Wisconsin Foodie include a tour of the operations at Wisconsin Healthy Grown® growers Alsum Farms & Produce in Friesland and a visit to Sterling Farms in Grand Marsh, where Wisconsin Healthy Grown® Growers Joe Seis and Larry Alsum share their story and passion for potatoes.

The Wisconsin Potatoes episode is one of 13 that “Wisconsin Foodie” produces, which air from January through May. All episodes repeat each week from May through December and are also available on the “Wisconsin Foodie” YouTube channel.

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About Alsum Farms & Produce

Alsum Farms & Produce Inc. is a leading fresh market grower, packer and shipper of Wisconsin grown potatoes, onions, and provider of fresh, quality produce. Established five decades ago and headquartered in Friesland, Wis., Alsum Farms & Produce is a vertically integrated family-owned farm, packing facility and logistics company providing quality produce. Committed to sustainability and stewardship of the soil, Alsum Farms grows 3,000 acres of Wisconsin Healthy Grown® Certified Alsum Potatoes along with pumpkins.

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