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- From: "Liz" <liz AT horseshoegardens.com>
- To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] cooler
- Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:48:54 -0400
The Coolbot people recommend
hydro-cooling some crops and spreading out the harvest on the floor to
get it to cool down as quickly as possible. This from their
website:
"Some crops are “hydro-cooled” which for us means they are
gently sprayed off with cold well-water. If you have helpers, it’s really
important to alert them to how much damage they can do directing a high pressure
stream of water at your crops! Stronger crops like heartier Kale and collards…
turnips, carrots, and beets might get sprayed down, but we don’t do that for
lighter greens, lettuce, basil, cilantro, or other crops that might hold the
water, causing other types of decay problems.
Instead, we make sure they
are packed lightly into harvest crates, and we spread the crates out only one
layer deep on the cooler floor to maximize their access to the cold air. They
stay like that for the 30 minutes it takes us to come up with the next trailer
load of veggies – then they are stacked up or placed on wire mesh shelves and
the new load of veggies are spread out on the cooler floor."
Liz
Horseshoe Gardens
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Re: [Market-farming] cooler
, (continued)
- Re: [Market-farming] cooler, Richard Robinson, 03/29/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Cooler, sue roseman, 03/27/2009
- [Market-farming] cooler, Paul St. John, 03/27/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] cooler, cjmaness AT juno.com, 03/28/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] cooler, SaladG, 03/29/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Cooler, David R. Hibbeln, 03/30/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] cooler,
cjmaness AT juno.com, 03/30/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] cooler,
John Hendrickson, 03/30/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] cooler,
David Inglis, 03/30/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] cooler,
John Hendrickson, 03/30/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] cooler,
Liz, 03/30/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] cooler, John Hendrickson, 03/30/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] cooler,
Liz, 03/30/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] cooler,
John Hendrickson, 03/30/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] cooler,
David Inglis, 03/30/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] cooler,
John Hendrickson, 03/30/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] cooler, cjmaness AT juno.com, 03/30/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] cooler,
mcoldiron, 03/30/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] cooler, breck, 03/30/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] cooler, Allan Balliett, 03/31/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] cooler, cjmaness AT juno.com, 03/30/2009
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