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  • From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
  • To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Squash Flowers
  • Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 08:02:55 -0500


Male squash flowers are on longer stems. Treat them like cut flowers by
leaving plenty of stem, bunch them and put them in a bucket with water in
the bottom. Then you can cool them in an air conditioned room. If you can
keep the temperatures in the low 60'sF they should do well for a couple of
days. But it's best to deliver asap. The risk of loss is then transfered.

Bill Shoemaker
Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
Univ of Illinois - St Charles Hort Research Center

-----Original Message-----
From: Lucy Goodman-Owsley <goodows AT excite.com>
To: market farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Date: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 7:09 AM
Subject: Squash Flowers


>I have a chef who wants to buy squash flowers from us. We have lots of
>summer squashes about ready to go into flower and I know that I should take
>only the male flowers. what I don't know is what to charge (by the piece or
>by weight?) and how to prep them for sale (precooling or not)
>
>Had our first market yesterday. It was slow but not bad considering we had
>to move the operations across the street due to a massive constuction
>project on the park that was our home
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>Lucy Goodman-Owsley
>Boulder Belt CSA
>New Paris, OH
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