[Market-farming] cooler

John Hendrickson jhendric at wisc.edu
Mon Mar 30 11:52:12 EDT 2009


I do not have a CoolBot but have talked with the guy who sells these (a 
market farmer himself...a good sign) and learned that one of the biggest 
keys to getting good results with it is a very well insulated floor.  
For those that might be nervous about using this, or really needing a 
32-33 degree cooler, I think an ideal set-up would be to have two 
coolers: a conventional cooler kept at 32-33 for things like broccoli, 
peas, greens, carrots, etc. and then a CoolBot to keep another area at 
45-55 for beans, melons, cucumbers, eggplant, peppers, squash, etc.  
Perhaps the conventional cooler could be inside the CoolBot space, so 
that the conventional cooler would not have to work as hard?

-John

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John Hendrickson
Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1535 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706
608-265-3704
www.cias.wisc.edu



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