Creston farmers are last seed potato growers in the Flathead

Seed potato farming in the Flathead started in the early 1920s. It thrived for decades, led by some of the area’s most well-known farm families — the Smalls, Koenigs, Logans, Van Akens and others — but one by one the farms disappeared. Some farmers retired with no family members available or willing to carry on the operation.