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  • From: Janet Bachmann <janetb AT ncatark.uark.edu>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: dryer for bulk herbs
  • Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 12:54:48 -0600


ATTRA has a newly revised publication on Options for Food Dehydration.
Look for it at the website <www.attra.org> or call 800-346-9140 for a
free printed copy. (The new version probably isn't on the web yet.)

> Nan Johnson wrote:
>
> Just in case anyone has seen or done this, I am looking to purchase
> some kind of machine to dry about a ton of green [freshly] harvested
> medicinal plant material (like catnip or wheat) (picture six pickup
> trucks packed with green material). We have used a tobacco drying
> shed but this is not practical for the market farmer here with one or
> two acres of herbs. Way too labor intensive. The dryer would be part
> of a farmer cooperative for our state.
>
> many thank you's
> Nan
> Dancing Goats Farm
> N. Mississippi
> ---

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Janet Bachmann
Agriculture Specialist
National Center for Appropriate Technology
P.O. Box 3657
Fayetteville, AR 72702
(479)442-9824
(479)442-9842 fax
janetb AT ncatark.uark.edu
www.ncat.attra.org




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