Ascutney Harvest
Farmers
Lauren Mucha
Vermont
State
Grant Year
Fall 2024
The Farm
Ascutney Harvest is a small-scale, human-powered, no-till farm growing certified organic vegetables, herbs, microgreens and flowers at the base of Mt. Ascutney in Vermont.
The Project Funded
This grant provides a portion of the funding to purchase a commercial salad spinner to replace the hand-crank spinner currently in use. This would significantly increase the efficiency of washing greens by allowing for hands-free operation and holding five times more greens.
The Project Impact
Purchasing a commercial salad spinner would allow us to greatly increase our efficiency washing salad mix, which is one of our most popular and important, but also most time-consuming, crops. We could use this extra time to grow more or to accomplish our existing total workload in less time.
