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  • From: Martin Koenig <koehoe AT earthlink.net>
  • 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, 03 Sep 2000 06:21:43 -0800


I bought 2 great net bags from Nylon Net Company in Memphis, TN. Phone #
(901) 526-6500,
Fax (901) 526-6538. They are 22x22x22 (a big cube) and we drain up to 8 lbs.
of greens
in each one. Could hold more but we don't want to squash the greens. They
are $6 each.

Margaret Hoeffel
Blue Moon Farm
Vashon, WA

"Lawrence F. London, Jr." wrote:

> 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
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