[photograph from: www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2008/1000799/index.html]
This is one photography contest that I have to enter. It's the World potato photography contest, launched March 12th in Rome. (Rome? Rome! I know what you're thinking. Ireland, Newfoundland, but Rome?)
According to the press release of that date, the contest was launched--to highlight the role of the potato as a source of food, employment and income in developing countries--by FAO and the United Nations. The contest is being held in conjunction with the UN’s International Year of the Potato (IYP) in 2008.
And how's this factoid: the potato is the world’s number four food crop, after rice, wheat and maize, and grown in more than one hundred countries.
I've been thinking about spuds because I want to grow some at the Cove this summer... maybe some whites, blues, definitely some reds and maybe some fingerlings...
Now the contest details: Winners in the professional and amateur categories will be awarded cash prizes totalling some US$11 000 as well as Nikon cameras. The deadline for entries is 1 September 2008.
For info: IYP-Photo@fao.org
6 comments:
FAO has its headquarters in Rome, which is probably why it was announced in Rome.
Hi Rene - yes, I was kidding of course. Be interesting to see what photos are submitted...
Should be some neat pics. Good luck with the growing Alison. I use to grow my own potatoes in BC. Not a big potato eater but gave lots away. Fun to harvest.
Stan
Hi Stan,
and they grow easily in Nfld - I like a vegetable like that!
We'd grow them in Kuujjuaq in the summer by slipping them under some moss on a south facing slope, often mostly bare rock as soon as the snow melted. In early Sept we'd 'harvest' the golf ball sized spuds. Best potatoes ever, of course. Your kids will love squishing potato bugs all summer... :-)
Michael, what a wonderful story about potato growing. Don't suppose you have any photos for the contest? Moss-harvested, gneiss-grown yukon golds - wouldn't that be great! don't suppose there were ever root cellars up there?! A
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