The Farmer's Share

Walk-in Coolers and Climate Controlled Rooms: EP05

The Ag Engineering podcasts shares a conversation with small scale fruit and vegetable farmers to discuss tools, tips or techniques to improve the sustainability of your farm. This episode chats with Silas Doyle-Burr of Last Resort Farm (lastresortfarm.com) about his 5 walk-in climate controlled rooms.

Show Notes

Silas installed five custom build rooms in his renovated dairy barn to create different climate cones for vegetable storage or germination chambers, some notes from the episode are listed here.

  • VECS, The installer he used for his cooler monitoring and controls.
  • Silas used trusscore, a corrugated PVC plant in his wash/pack space. See this and more on our blog post go.uvm.edu/smoothnclean
  • Follow Last resort farm on instagram
Watched a walk though of the coolers at Last Resort Farm.

Photo Gallery

One of the five coolers
The Vesta Controller
Commercial refrigeration to remove field heat out of crops effectually.
A cooler turned into a sweet potato storage room and controlled at the right conditions.
This set-up is heating a pan of water with a fan on it to put humidity into the room
Coolbot install, controlled via a relay
The Dewright Humidity Sensor
Trusscore panels
Silas, standing infront of one of the controlled rooms and the Vesta controller
Shatter proof light fixtures
Showing the humidity sensor
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Listen to the Episode

Transcript

AEP-EP05Download

Andy Chamberlin

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