in the tranquil garden of the mind, let us ponder the humble potato, often incognito beneath the soil, yet holding the essence of nourishment. before the predissolutionary moment of harvest, these silent sentinels offer bulletins of growth, invisible yet insistent. to devalue them is to overlook the tapestry of life they support. hence, as we reinvigorate our connection to the earth from scratch, let us honor the hidden journey of the potato, a testament to the unseen forces that sustain us.