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  • From: "TxBeeFarmer" <TxBeeFarmer AT HotPop.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Blackberry Storage
  • Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 09:06:53 -0600

Yep, I have Apache and Arapaho? Sounds like a juicer or freeze dehydrator
might be a good investment. Do you juice or dehydrate? If you do, any
suggestions as to which ones to buy? Saw a steam juicer on the web. Any
thoughts about those?

Thanks
(West Texas) Mark

> Shelf life is a function of variety. My target is to get the berries
> sold and delivered the day after picking. Navajos are more durable
> than others I have seen; they might last two weeks. Common thorny
> varieties have a maximum shelf life of a week. You have Apache and
> Arapaho? You might find those between a week and two weeks, though
> they might look pretty funky after 2-3 days. Refrigeration is a must
> even for holding overnight.
>
> I haven't found that "pick your own" does much to take up my berry
> slack. All the pick-your-owners want to pick Saturday while my slack
> demand is early and mid week. Grocery stores tend to order more
> heavily for Thursday and Friday delivery for week-end sale.
>
> Last year, I built a couple of insulated boxes for hauling cold stuff,
> including berries, in trucks. 2" thick walls, holding about 4 bu,
> around 12-15 dozen pints. Before the boxes, any berries that came back
> from a farmers market were of no value.
>
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