Market Farming

["Brian and Jacqueline Potzkai" <potzkai AT hotmail.com>]

> How much water is actually in the cooler, is the lettuce right in the
> water? (And, is everyone doing this?)

Hi Alan - we use this method as well, but we transfer our lettuce to bus 
bins for display when we get to market.  We put chipped ice and water into 
the bottom of the bus bin and cover with a white cotton cloth (found the 
cloth kept the ice longer in the hot temps) then add our bagged lettuce to 
the bin - the water does get up around the bags and we drain them as much as 
possible and put into a shopping bag for the customer after a sale.   We 
keep adding lettuce and ice from coolers as the stock goes down.  So far the 
lettuce has maintained even to the next day when we sell it cheap at the 
farm as a "previous days pick".  If you're late getting up the next day it's 
nice to have something ready to put out - even if it was yesterday's pick 
;<)   Jacqueline


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