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We provide our customers with fresh and safe produce that keeps everyone coming back! We are USDA “GAP” certified on all products that we grow on the farm. We get our farm certified every season to ensure we are growing our product without risk of contamination leading to safe food for you!
We grow many different fruits and vegetables on the farm including strawberries, sweet potatoes, broccoli, field tomatoes, peppers, cantaloupe, cabbage, squash, cucumbers, corn, peaches, apples, blueberries, and many more! Interested in wholesale? Our produce is available in bulk quantities. Send us a message through the feedback form and we will follow up with more information.
C.V. Pilson
Sweet Potatoes
Sweet potatoes are our specialty! From planting to carefully harvesting and packing each one, we pour our hearts into every step of the process. We ensure only the finest sweet potatoes make it from our fields to your plate, delivering unbeatable flavor and quality with every bite.
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Bedding & Planting
We bed our sweet potatoes in Mid-March as soon as the risk of a heavy freeze is mostly over. Our sweet potato beds will yield 80% of our total planted acreage for each crop. The sweet potatoes that we use to bed are certified clean seed stock purchased the prior season and harvested for our main crop the next season. We cut plants from our sweet potato beds and we start to plant our crop by the end of May and finish by the end of June each year.
Harvesting
We begin harvesting our crop in the middle of September. It usually lasts until the middle-end of October depending on the weather. Our plow flips the sweet potatoes over for hand harvest. We have two buckets, a red and a green, the red is for #1’s and the green is for #2’s and Jumbos. Our workers are well trained in this process. We load them up in bins on flat-bed trucks and transport them to our facility.
Curing Rooms
Holds up to 40,000 bushels. After they are harvested we place them in our curing rooms and begin the curing process. This typically takes 5-7 days. We heat them to 82 degrees Fahrenheit and keep the humidity around 95%. This makes the sweet potatoes skin tighten for packing as well as sweetens them up for better eating.
Storage & Packing
After our initial curing stage they are taken out of the rooms and placed in a cooler area to finish the process. In full it takes 4-6 weeks until the sweet potatoes are fully cured out and can be packed across our grading line.
