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  • From: "Beth Spaugh" <lists AT rhomestead.com>
  • To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] coolbot
  • Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 06:50:09 -0400

I also put my lettuce trays in the cooler to chill/pregerminate in the summer.  I give them a day or two and take them out.

 

Beth Spaugh

Rehoboth Homestead, Peru NY

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"How we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used." - Wendell Berry

"Without power over our food, any notion of democracy is empty." - Frances Moore Lappe

 

 


From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of SaladG AT aol.com
Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2011 10:56 PM
To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] coolbot

 

Just a hot weather tip for green growers, we use our old cooler that just has an AC, to make a germination chamber for cool weather micro greens and lettuce, take out of the dark chamber after germination and put in shaded hoophouse for further growing, not everything works but most do.

 

Phil from Iowa

 

I would add for those with normal walkins on slabs. . . you HAVE to insulate the floor, preferably below the concrete.  We are running two A/C united tied into one cool bot (foil the thermostats together) and maintain 39-42 degrees with a 12x13' cooler w/ crappy panels and rigged up door.  Doing it from scratch I would buy a enclosed freezer box (+R value) with floor (and good door) and save myself a lot of hassle and electricity.

John  






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