[Market-farming] cooler
Liz
liz at horseshoegardens.com
Mon Mar 30 14:48:54 EDT 2009
The Coolbot people recommend hydro-cooling some crops and spreading out the
harvest on the floor to get it to cool down as quickly as possible. This
from their website:
"Some crops are "hydro-cooled" which for us means they are gently sprayed
off with cold well-water. If you have helpers, it's really important to
alert them to how much damage they can do directing a high pressure stream
of water at your crops! Stronger crops like heartier Kale and collards.
turnips, carrots, and beets might get sprayed down, but we don't do that for
lighter greens, lettuce, basil, cilantro, or other crops that might hold the
water, causing other types of decay problems.
Instead, we make sure they are packed lightly into harvest crates, and we
spread the crates out only one layer deep on the cooler floor to maximize
their access to the cold air. They stay like that for the 30 minutes it
takes us to come up with the next trailer load of veggies - then they are
stacked up or placed on wire mesh shelves and the new load of veggies are
spread out on the cooler floor."
Liz
Horseshoe Gardens
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