Salad Mix Testing Center

We pull market bags of salad mix from time to time and test them for longevity, leaf quality, etc. in order to make sure that we have a really good salad mix product. It’s a way to make sure that our post-harvest handling (we don’t process anything) is effective.

This afternoon, I just went through some salad mix from market 5 days ago that I had placed in moby dick, the big white market cooler, with some frozen water bottles. I don’t seal the bags, just let them flop open/closed in an pile. And I stopped at 5 days since I needed to clean out the cooler and hope that most of you will eat a quarter of a pound of mix within that window. Or at least by the next market!

The cooler was sort of cold by today (most of the water had thawed), but it was certainly warmer than your home refridgerator. Needless to say the salad mix and arrugula was looking fine- good enough to eat! The only trouble spots were where excess water had accumulated or the bag was next to the ice, something that wouldn’t occur in a fridge since they tend to be drying environments.