Enthusiastic third and fourth graders dug into their community potato patch Thursday afternoon, and came up with crates of red and gold orbs destined for the Homer Food Pantry &ndash; and their own stomachs.
Lynn Maslow&rsquo;s West Homer Elementary class came back for the third year in a row to harvest their potato crop at the Kachemak Heritage Land Trust garden. Each year, they learn a new technique to make for better growing.
Even though the rain started just moments after the group took shovels to soil, it couldn&rsquo;t dampen the spirits of the children as they found generous hills of the potatoes hiding beneath the black covering of Typar.