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  • From: Karen Sutherland & Roots Farm <rootsfarm AT marpin.dm>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] walk in cooler
  • Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:44:32 -0400

Title: rootsfarm_signature
Maury,

Thanks so much again for the helpful info.  Looking into it all and may take you up on your kind offer for further info. when I know enough to know what I don't know.. 

Right now, weekend market prep madness starting.  Breathing space again on Sunday.  We have email list goes out weekly with what's available that week.  Customers then either order and pick up their prepackaged orders or come pick off the table.  Ordering customers have increased dramatically so now we struggle to prepare, pack, bill, record the 35-40 or so orders that come in weekly.  Will be easier (?) when we have proper cooler and can pick and prepare some of the offerings a day or so before.  (Right now my home fridge is 1/2 full of seeds.  ayyy.)  Also when I can better develop a system to record the info just once to pick, pack and bill from.

All best wishes,

Karen

Karen Sutherland
Roots Farm
Organic Produce : Fruits, Roots, Vegetables & Herbs

Cockrane, Dominica
767-449-3038
rootsfarm AT marpin.dm

 



maury sheets wrote:
rootsfarm_signature

Hi Karen,

 

See the post to John Hendrickson I just made and go to that web site to see the inside and outside of the insulated containers.  I had an old freezer door from a restaurant and used that with just a wood stud wall I framed out. Any metal door with an insulated core would work.  The rest of the wall does need something like Masonite to cover it because of the moisture problems.  I used a 10 inch Rotron style fan through the wall to cool the front.  Whether it would work with a solar setup would depend on many variables such as: size of compressor, temperature setting, outside temperature, size of the solar unit, etc. You would need a low temperature compressor if you need a freezer as part of it, otherwise a medium temp. compressor works fine and uses less electricity,  but doesn’t have the heating coils in the evaporation unit to defrost the unit automatically (which it wouldn’t need above 32 degrees F).  Talk to local refrigeration people about a used one coming out of a restaurant or such.

Anything else I can do to help, just shout, or maybe email.

 

Maury

 

 

Woodland Produce- Fairton, New Jersey

Hydroponically producing sustainable salad greens in the Northeast.

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