Sugar Hill Produce is a very special customer. They’re the proud owners of not one or two but three CoolBot coolers! Rob VanVeld took some time out of his busy farming schedule to chat with us about why CoolBot works so well for Sugar Hill Produce. Read on to find out how this farm came … Continued
Holly Sobetski started working with ECHO as an intern in 2005, enrolled in their fourteen month agricultural internship program for recent college graduates. The program is specifically geared towards grads who are interested in becoming development workers overseas, helping small scale farmers in second and third world countries. Holly spent five years working in Cambodia, … Continued
Curtis Stone has been busy, very busy. His money generating urban farm (one third of an acre equals $75,000 a year!) keeps him busy as does traveling the world teaching other farmers how to streamline their process and produce like his farm does. When we spoke with Curtis two years ago he outlined his three … Continued
Eddy Gilmore has led a fairly interesting life. In fact, you can read about it in his book The Emancipation of a Buried Man, in which he vividly describes growing up as a child of an extreme hoarder. In a nutshell, Eddy can be described as a part-time writer, a part-time farmer and a full … Continued
Have you ever considered what a summertime trip to the supermarket would be like without refrigeration? You jump into your air conditioned car, a brief respite from the afternoon’s blistering temperatures. Your hair curls as soon as you step out into the parking lot (thanks humidity!), until you cross the threshold of the supermarket’s automatic … Continued
Q&A With Jenny Durrin & Matt Roth University of Idaho’s Nuclear Seed Potato Program “Would you like fries with that?” Yes, of course you would. And chances are that those fries came from the pre-nuclear seed potatoes grown in the University of Idaho’s greenhouses. We know what you’re thinking: WTF are nuclear seed potatoes? Were … Continued
For anyone in the non-industrial farming arena, Joel Salatin is a household name. And it’s not just because his family’s Polyface Farms supplies meat so good that many of his customers claim it’s the best they’ve ever eaten. Nearly every farmer we’ve spoken with has named Salatin as one of their major inspirations for getting … Continued
One minute, Tim Young was a corporate star, flying to Europe on one of his every-six-week business trips. The next, he was a fledgling farmer, struggling to move cows on his 100-acre property in rural Georgia. Okay, it didn’t happen quite that quickly. But close. Young grew up in Georgia. While he’d never lived on … Continued
If you enjoyed a fresh Dole pineapple or banana this year, it’s possible your tasty fruit spent some time in a CoolBot-driven walk-in cooler. Earlier this year, Dole Food Company — one of the top global suppliers of pineapples and bananas — started using the CoolBot for their operations in Honduras. Fun fact: Honduras exported … Continued
With not much money in the bank and a baby on the way, most people probably wouldn’t decide the timing was perfect to move to a new state and start a farm. But Rand and Alexandra Gifford aren’t most people. Earlier this year, they moved from a two-bedroom apartment in Chicago to a 10-acre property … Continued
