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Re: [Market-farming] post-harvest handling resource?
- From: SaladG AT aol.com
- To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] post-harvest handling resource?
- Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 23:02:28 EDT
When we started we were very small, and the best rule we used around
here was common sense. Wash everything, and this helps get the field heat
out of your produce, the quicker the heat will leave your product the longer it
will keep for your customer. Green beans was about the only product we
didn't wash, they will rust really bad and fast, that said we have washed them
if they were really muddy. Clean your picking containers and wash them out
between products to help with contamination, hazards are present in soil and
water and on humans and clothing, plus what your neighbors were spraying this
week. The best rule of thumb is sell clean cooled products in clean
display methods. We sell in baskets that are lined in food grade plastic
and never used twice. To keep produce a walk in cooler at a temp around 35
to 40 degrees and keep the humidity very high, ours runs around 95%, this really
helps with most products to keep them crisp
Iowa State PM 1976b Revised January 2011 is a really good publication
on food handling guide.
PM1974C.pdf
Some of these sites might answer a lot of questions.
Phil from Iowa
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[Market-farming] post-harvest handling resource?,
Deb Taft, 07/08/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] post-harvest handling resource?,
Paul Ewing, 07/09/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] post-harvest handling resource?, Deb Taft, 07/10/2011
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- Re: [Market-farming] post-harvest handling resource?, SaladG, 07/08/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] white rot,
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Re: [Market-farming] white rot,
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[Market-farming] white rot,
alicia best, 07/09/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] post-harvest handling resource?,
Paul Ewing, 07/09/2011
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