The Ag Engineering podcasts share 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.
Silas installed five custom build rooms in his renovated dairy barn to create different climate cones for vegetable storage or germination chambers.
VECS, The installer he used for his cooler monitoring and controls.
7:00 Coolbot vs. commercial refrigeration
8:00 Accurate temp and humidity controls
12:51 Wireless Options
13:21 Cost?
16:00 What is a relay?
21:01 Regrets with building material choice
22:23 The need for circulation fans
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