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  • From: "Beth Spaugh" <lists AT rhomestead.com>
  • To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Market-farming] farmstand potato packaging
  • Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 21:39:41 -0400

New to farmstand this year.  How do folks keep potatoes from turning green?  I tried bagging 2 lbs in standard brown bags, but they still turn green (yes, the little stand is very slow this fall, so they may sit there a week – want it to look full you know).  We will probably build a box on a shelf for quarts for next year, but I am looking also at 5 lb bags or 2 to 3 pound bags.  Online I see clear plastic and mesh, and plastic wrap.  Haven’t been able to discern if any of these block the wavelengths that cause greening or if they just depend on fast turnover.

 

Thank you.

 

Beth Spaugh

Rehoboth Homestead, Peru NY

http://rhomestead.com      http://www.facebook.com/rhomestead

 

"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

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