So you are looking for information on storing for taking to market rather than for your own use, correct? If so, then you'll want to ask the folks over on the Market Gardeners forum

for advice. With many crops it isn't so much a storage issue but one of timing the picking just right depending on the crop, and of course having help. Also helps if your market is more than one day a week of course.

For example, squash and cukes are often picked late the night before or early the am of the market day. Other crops can be picked earlier in the day before and stored ready to load in insulated coolers or even loaded in the trucks under cover in deep shade.

For personal use storage then no doubt that a basement or root cellar can be a life saver for long term storage.

Dave

Yea, do a search on 'Coolbot' in the Market gardeners forum.

Yes, I am looking to store produce for markets. I'll check out that forum. Thank you both!

I second the Coolbot. We live in an area where homes don't have basements or root cellars. I have looked at the literature for the Coolbot for a couple of years, and hopefully we will be able to implement one on our small homestead.

Definitely the coolbot, which was invented by a farmer in NY's Hudson Valley and is now used widely in the region and beyond.