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December 2000

Our farm just went through a few nights of hard freeze right before Christmas, click on the thumbnails below for larger pictures of the aftermath. We use a system of mist sprayers which we leave on during the whole period of freeze, the ice sheet that forms on the plants protects them from the hard freeze.

Update:   Since those early Winter hard freeze nights (in the low 20s), we've had quite a few more of them, for a total of about 15 throughout this winter (Yes! even here in Florida). This has been an excellent trail for our Anti-freeze system. Since the cold period in now over, our crops have recovered and the losses were minimal. Our U-Pick Strawberry operation has resumed and is back to normal, with a healthy fruit production. The same is true with our Lettuce and other such production, our insulated pots are an excellent protection against freezing for the roots, and coupled with a functional Mysting System (Anti-Freeze) to protect the rest of the plants, the losses should remain very low.