{"id":4242,"date":"2021-10-06T18:21:59","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T22:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cwcallah\/?p=4242"},"modified":"2025-04-07T12:45:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T16:45:48","slug":"building-a-better-greens-bubbler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/cwcallah\/2021\/10\/06\/building-a-better-greens-bubbler\/","title":{"rendered":"Building a Better Greens Bubbler"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Leafy greens are a popular crop among consumers seeking a healthy and nutritious diet year-round. As a crop that is grown close to the ground in a variety of systems, often it is important to remove soil from the leaves before marketing. A relatively high volume dunk tank with several, typically lower volume, follow-on tanks is a common setup for achieving this. In the first dunk tank, some gentle agitation is often desired to ensure water contact with all parts of the leaves, provide some active \u201cscrubbing\u201d, and to flip leaves allowing soil to drop off. While this can be done by hand or using a hand-held tool, many growers find an air bubbler to work well for this need. In this guide, some of the best practices and experiences of growers are captured along with some guidance on cleaning and sanitization to improve produce safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A PDF version of this blog post can be downloaded here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Table of Contents<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Off the Shelf Options
<\/a>Design for Quality & Safety
<\/a>Design for Crew Safety
<\/a>Design for Gentle Agitation and Water Containment
<\/a>Design for Cleaning and Produce Safety
<\/a>Build Guidance (with videos)<\/a>
Bill of Materials<\/a>
<\/a>Farmer Bubbler Examples
<\/a>How to Clean a Bubbler
<\/a>Bubblers Webinar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Off The Shelf Options<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Farmer’s are a creative type, but sometimes lacks in the time to figure things out from scratch. If you’re not interested in building a bubbler from the ground up as outlined below, there are a few options that you can purchase, that are pretty much ready to to use. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greens Bubbler from Neversink Tools<\/a> – $489<\/h3>\n\n\n\n