Home-Grown Potatoes Virtual Workshop

Growing potatoes is a rewarding activity. Freshly harvested potatoes are the best!

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Home-Grown Potatoes Virtual Workshop

  • Thursday, May 7, 2026, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Growing potatoes can be a fun, rewarding activity. Homegrown potatoes fresh from the garden taste delicious. If you’ve never had homegrown potatoes, you’re in for a real treat!

Learn how to grow them and grow your own! Our farmer-presenter Ed Fraser of Fraser’s Garlic Farm will discuss key steps of planting and care, pests and diseases, harvest, and storage. This workshop will help aspiring gardeners, hobbyists, and homesteaders achieve a successful harvest. 

Participants will be able to purchase a gourmet Seed Potato Medley at registration. Buy our 4-variety Medley and grow something NEW! The orders come in 3 lb. bags for $15.00 each. The supply is limited, so order soon! PLEASE NOTE: The seed potatoes do not need to be picked up before the virtual workshop.

  • AmaRosa Fingerling - smooth red skin with creamy red flesh that resists fading during cooking, a high-yielding fingerling. Great fried, roasted, boiled, steamed, or as pink chips
  • Goldrush - known for its white flaky flesh perfect for baking, boiling, or frying. This potato is excellent for winter storage, making it an ideal homestead crop
  • Lehigh Gold - a high-yielding, yellow-fleshed, mid-to-late season potato variety, with all-purpose options, ideal for baking, boiling, mashing, and frying without turning gray
  • Magic Molly - purple skin and unique dark purple flesh fingerling, great for roasting 

See Potato Medley 2026

Pick up your Potato Medley order at CCE Monroe, 2449 St. Paul Blvd., Rochester, NY 14617
between Monday 5/4 and Friday 5/8/2026
 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM.

Workshop Registration and Seed Potatoes Purchase

HERE

Fee

$20 workshop, $15 Potato Medley (optional)

Contact

Jarmila Haseler
Agriculture and Food System Educator
jh954@cornell.edu
(585) 753-2565

Last updated April 21, 2026