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  • From: "Elizabeth Pike" <pike AT always-online.com>
  • To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Storage for display of produce
  • Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 09:18:00 -0500


Robin,

Harvesting your lettuce should be done 2-3 days ahead of time. For
your lettuce to survive transport & display, it must be thoroughly
chilled. When I first began at the fm (it opens at 6am), I would get
up at 3 to harvest lettuce, wanting it to be absolutely fresh. By
7:30am, it looked horrible. So I began harvesting the previous night.
It did better. Then I discovered, the lettuce I harvested for my
personal use, would keep for a week in my fridge-just as fresh as the
day I picked it.

Now I pick my mf lettuce 2-3 days ahead, and also found this relieves
some of the burden of doing so much harvesting the day before market.
At first I was concerned my customers would object to 2-3 day old
lettuce, since "fresh" to me means picked that day. So I now harvest
a bit of lettuce that AM, to show my customers why 2-3 day old lettuce
is superior to fresh cut! Sells them every time, and they learn how
to properly prepare it to maximize their $$.

Liz
Morningstar Gardens
Pollocksville NC





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