Unwashed sweet potatoes in a storage bin.

More sweet potatoes getting ready to be stored.

Workers at Alexander Farms hand sorting the sweet potatoes on the packing line.

After the potatoes are placed into the boxes, they are sent down this last line to be weighed, inspected, and topped.

This is what our storage bins look like inside of the storage sheds.

These purple potatoes are called our Okinawan potatoes. They have a purple skin and a purple flesh to them.

An Okinawan sweet potato that has been cut in half to show its purple flesh.

These blooms on the sweet potato vine are where the potato will start to form.

This is what a row of plants look like further into the bedding season, before the harvest.

The grower hand-dug these sweet potatoes to see what his product looked like before harvesting.

A single cluster of sweet potatoes on a vine.

This is what the growers called bedding - after they plant the slips, they lay tarp over them to protect the plants until they grow.