Showing posts with label International Potato Center based in Lima. Show all posts
Showing posts with label International Potato Center based in Lima. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 25, 2015

'Papa' in Quechua


Pulled from the soil, these
Oblong
Treasures originated in the
Andes. Around  
The world they were cultivated –
Over 5,000 kinds now
Exist – and the hope is that
Starvation will not persist.

When one of my daughters was three years old, she watched our older neighbors as they knelt next to a long mound of earth, digging into it with their gloved hands. “What are you finding?” she asked. They were harvesting red potatoes. Imagine her delight.