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  • From: Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Best way to display green onions and arugula for sale
  • Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:41:42 -0400


On Jul 13, 2010, at 7:37 AM, Andy Fellenz wrote:

This season for the first time I have a reach-in cooler on my farmstand which will enable me to sell greens and some other crops which do better at cooler temperatures on the stand for the first time.
The cooler is kept at about 43 F.  It does a good job with the berries, and lettuces (which are displayed in a tub where the stem is immersed in about a 1/4" of water), but we are having problems with the stems of our green onions going limp very quickly and our arugula drying out.

What are good ways to store/display these items so that we can keep them on the stand for more than a day.
I should mention that In my walk-in both the onions and arugula store very well.  It seems like the reach-in runs much dryer than my walk-in does.


Is the reach-in an automatic defrost?

Any cooler with automatic defrost will dehydrate anything that's in it. You need to either find a cooler designed to hold high humidity for produce storage, or cover all produce subject to dehydration problems. Are your berries in clamshells? That would protect them if so, and if the lettuce is standing in water that will protect the lettuce, though the defrost function may be working overtime trying to evaporate that water (and, if you set the cooler any colder, may freeze that water at the surface due to evaporative cooling, damaging the lettuce).



-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale






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