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  • From: "Jill Taylor Bussiere" <jdt AT itol.com>
  • To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Lettuce/salad greens harvest containers, washing devices and large spinner (sources needed)
  • Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 07:59:55 -0500


Do you remember what the grower's name was, or where he was located?
Jill
----- Original Message -----
From: Lawrence F. London, Jr. <lflondon AT mindspring.com>
Newsgroups: market-farming
To: market farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2000 1:05 AM
Subject: Lettuce/salad greens harvest containers, washing devices and large
spinner (sources needed)


>
>
> On PBS TV today I was amazed to see on Karen Strobeim's "Perennial
> Gardener" a visit and interview with a large market vegetable grower
> in the midwest who seels to farmer's markets, restaurants and through
> his CSA. He was shown harvesting baby red leaf lettuce with grass hand
> shears and putting the cuttings into a nicely made plastic tub with a
> white plastic liner (bag) the contents of which was later dumped into
> a big nylon net bag immersed in another plastic tub - for washing.
> Lettuce was later put into a huge orange plastic "salad spinner" for
> dewatering.
>
> Anyone know where to order equipment of this sort, obviously well made
> and durable for the professional market gardener.
>
> Many thanks for any leads.
>
> LL
>
>
>
> Lawrence F. London, Jr. Venaura Farm ICQ#27930345
> lflondon AT mindspring.com london AT metalab.unc.edu
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>
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