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  • From: "Brigette Leach" <afhg AT ctsmail.net>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Market-farming Digest, Vol 104, Issue 4
  • Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:22:20 -0400

Uline product catalog specifies which bags are food grade and which are not. That being said, it's easy to pick up a phone and ask them directly. We use several sizes of their food grade bags for our products. Good products, good customer service.
 
Brigette
SW Mich
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Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2011 1:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Market-farming Digest, Vol 104, Issue 4

Thanks for the leads on perforated plastic bags.  The below suggestion is a good one, but I wonder if uline plastic bags are food grade?  If not, is this a concern?  Also, I haven't specifically heard of storing potatoes in plastic bags, but thought I would give it a try this year.  Potatoes can be purchased at the market in perforated bags, so I had assumed they could be stored in such for some period of time. 
Thanks again.
cheers,
chris



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From: Two Onion Farm <farmer AT twoonionfarm.com>
To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2011 14:41:32 -0500
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] perforated plastic storage bags
We've had excellent luck storing root crops in unperforated large 2 mil plastic bags from Uline.  We punch holes in the bottom of each bag with a serrated knife and that has been adequate to drain excess moisture and keep carrots and beets from October to April.

Chris

On 9/3/2011 11:00 AM, market-farming-request@lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
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Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 11:57:46 -0500
From: "stonecirclefarm tds.net"<stonecirclefarm@tds.net>
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] perforated plastic storage bags.
To: Market Farming<market-farming@lists.ibiblio.org>
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One option is Putnam Plastics.  See:

http://www.putnamfarm.com/details.php?prodId=519&category=17

I've not heard of using these for potatoes but they are great for carrots,
beets, and other root crops.

-John



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: sora AT coldreams.com
To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 16:06:47 -0700
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Still off grid
>So even on my tiny system...the inverter also shuts the system off when
it reads that the batteries are full to prevent explosion.  And yes
indeed, household batteries are not cheap and are certainly the worst
part of the equation.  I have HUP Solar ones, huge and heavy and yes
filled with acid.  But they've worked great for 10 years now.  Sometimes
the phone companies have used household batteries that they use for
backups and replace long before expiration and sell.  Our first were
these and lasted 15 years.
This area has always been far off grid and the costs to bring it in were
huge but civilization is beginning to encroach and the possibility of
connecting to the grid would eliminate the batteries.  After so many years
of being my own power company it would be weird to not be able to control
it.!
> It seems counter intuitive to me too, but they won't let it be done any
> other way. I do not get to see any of the low voltage power, it goes to
> the
> inverters right at the panels and is then sent to the greenhouse, house
> and
> the meter.  The only positive point is I do not have the expense of the
> battery back-up system.  Sora, I am sure that is no minor expense.  My
> system will also trip if the line voltage coming in to the property is not
> within tolerance (my inverters will trip for 10 minutes if the voltage
> exceeds 256v (128v and 128v) since they is designed for 240 volts). The
> installer did say the inverters are many times smarter than the grid they
> are feeding into.
>
> Maury
>
>>



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