Healthy Grown Potato Certification Program Sign Up

The 2009 Healthy Grown/Protected Harvest potato certification season is ready to begin. Healthy Grown fresh market potatoes are certified and sold as an environmentally responsible produce option, and have been available since 2001.  Currently, about 10% of Wisconsin’s fresh market potatoes are certified under the program.  For more information about the program, visit www.healthygrown.com.  To be eligible for the program in 2009, you must get your application into Protected Harvest by March 1, 2009. The latest version of the Healthy Grown Ecological Potato Standard and is available from Dr. Deana Knuteson at dknuteson@wisc.edu or 608.265.9798.  Please contact Deana if you have any questions about the program or certification procedures.  For information on the application materials, please contact Dan Sonke at Protected Harvest/SureHarvest at 831-477-7797 or dsonke@protectedharvest.com with any questions.