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Rob Diether, 70, specializes in growing potatoes at the Horse Lake Community Farm Co-Op, located 115 kilometres north of Kamloops.

"'Enclosed: Find $2 to cover expenses for some of your great nurturing efforts and perseverance in dealing with government agricultural departments,'" Diether says, reading out from a stack of dozens of letters.

"The main idea is … to preserve this unique piece of farmland and see that it does remain in farm production," he told CBC News.

He added the Cariboo potato was also sensitive to sunlight, which would make the spuds go green if they were sitting on a supermarket shelf for long.

The farmer has been working in the fields since the mid-'70s, when he joined the Community Enhancement and Economic Development Society (CEEDS), which he describes as a "back to the land agricultural commune."

Since then, CEEDS, which helped get the Horse Lake co-op started in 2006, has grown a veritable bounty of Cariboo potatoes from those first four seeds.

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