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  • From: "Jill Taylor Bussiere" <jdt AT itol.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Veggie transport to market
  • Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 09:27:35 -0600


Alison,
Could you line the supermarket boxes with unbleached paper towels, or
some other paperlike substance to protect against contamination?

Jill, Wisconsin



> We have used 20 lb tomato boxes we bought years ago and kept from year to
> year. Of course, you can't put three layers of ripe tomatoes in them, but
> we can usually put two layers (except for really fragile ones) and they
> stack nicely in the truck bed. The problem is that we have run out of
boxes,
> waxed produce boxes too, and need new ones. But we don't need pallet
loads
> of them, and as organic growers, we can't re-use the ones from the
> supermarket because of possible contamination. This is one place a
regional
> group of us would be useful - buying boxes cooperatively.
>
> Paul and Alison Wiediger
> Au Naturel Farm
> http://aunaturelfarm.homestead.com







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