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
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