Snowmass history: Potato harvest

Snowmass history: Potato harvest

Potatoes were a staple crop in the Roaring Fork Valley, including along Brush Creek in the early 1900s. It was such a labor-intensive crop to harvest that schools all over the valley would close for a week in the early fall so children could be in fields to help with harvesting. In an Aspen Times issue from October 1942, the school news section reported, “Mr. Stallard from the Employment office at Glenwood talked to the students last week and ex…