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- From: Goodaim AT aol.com
- To: market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
- Subject: Re: Keeping greens looking good
- Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 07:23:05 EDT
We keep our greens looking good by picking them before the sun hits first
thing in the morning. We follow by immediately washing them in cold well
water. We then store the mix in vented plastic bushel lugs which we cover
with wet burlap that has been soaked in cold water. This burlap trick works
well, it allows for evaporative cooling throughout the day, and if you have a
walk in cooler or a refridgerator it keeps the greens from drying out. We
keep our greens this way for our CSA until 6:00 in the evening and learned
the burlap trick on another large CSA we worked where we were able to provide
fresh greens for 550 members without any refridgeration. You may have to
tweak the system since your green have to bagged for delivery, but maybe you
could leave the tops of the bags open and cover. Hope this helps you some.
John at Charlestown Cooperative Farm
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Keeping greens looking good,
Bob Brocious, 07/09/2002
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: Keeping greens looking good, jeffery uhlig, 07/09/2002
- Re: Keeping greens looking good, A Balliett, 07/09/2002
- Re: Keeping greens looking good, Bob Brocious, 07/09/2002
- Re: Keeping greens looking good, Jim Manning, 07/09/2002
- Re: Keeping greens looking good, Goodaim, 07/10/2002
- Re: Keeping greens looking good, Lucy Goodman, 07/10/2002
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