Apr 12, 2019
2019 Spudwoman of the Year Alison Sklarczyk
Alison Sklarczyk examines potato plants just starting to sprout tubers.
Alison Sklarczyk, the 2019 Spudwoman of the Year, playfully holds up a wild boar trophy from a past harvest.
Alison Sklarczyk sits at her desk at Sklarczyk Seed Farm in Michigan. She is the tissue culture lab manager and oversees the finances.
Alison Sklarczyk of Sklarczyk Seed Farm in Johannesburg, Michigan, is the 2019 Spudwoman of the Year.
Potato plants in the greenhouse at Sklarczyk Seed Farm in Johannesburg, Michigan.
2019 Spudwoman of the Year Alison Sklarczyk at her tissue culture lab at Sklarczyk Seed Farm.
The staff at Sklarczyk Seed Farm sorts tubers.
Ben and Alison Sklarczyk in the greenhouse at Sklarczyk Seed Farm in Michigan.
One of the greenhouses at Sklarczyk Seed Farm, which produces six million potato tubers each year.
The staff at Sklarczyk Seed Farm sorts tubers.
Potato plants grow in the tissue culture lab at Sklarczyk Seed Farm.
One of the greenhouses at Sklarczyk Seed Farm, which produces six million potato tubers each year.
The staff at Sklarczyk Seed Farm sorts tubers.
Alison Sklarczyk examines potato plants at Sklarczyk Seed Farm in Michigan.
Alison Sklarczyk sorts tubers at Sklarczyk Seed Farm in northern Michigan. Photo: Michigan Potatoes
2019 Spudwoman of the Year Alison Sklarczyk with husband, Ben, and children, Morgan, 6, and Dane, 4.
Morgan and Dane Sklarczyk play in a hollowed-out area of wall that connect their parents’ offices at Sklarczyk Seed Farm.
Potato plants grow in the tissue culture lab at Sklarczyk Seed Farm.
The staff at Sklarczyk Seed Farm in Johannesburg, Michigan, in March 2019.
The staff at Sklarczyk Seed Farm sorts tubers.
Alison Sklarczyk works in the tissue culture lab at Sklarczyk Seed Farm in Johannesburg, Michigan.
