The document describes a container for urban farmers to store and transport produce from their farm to markets. It shows the steps an urban farmer takes to move produce from the farm to their market stand, including picking, packaging, transporting, unpacking, displaying, selling, and recycling or trashing materials. It also compares the packaging typically used by urban versus suburban farmers, such as urban farmers reusing boxes while suburban farmers use boxes once.

1. Urban Farm Container
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Creating a container that can be used by
the farmer at the farm to store produce
and be delivered to market or working
directly with farmer’s markets to store and
direct display product.
Bethany Casperite
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Elissa Meyers
John Pender
an urban agriculture project

2. Urban Farmer’s Market Packaging Suburban Farmer’s Market Packaging
– Wax boxes, Wooden crates, cardboard boxes – Eclectic variety of boxes
– Boxes are reused ( approximate 15 times) – Boxes are used once
– Stack able – Stack able
– Uniform size and shape – Non uniform size and shape
– Collapsible – Collapsible
– Goods are moved from one box to a display – Goods are moved from one box to a display
container container
Urban Markets Versus Suburban Markets
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3. P
Pick Package Transport
Urban Farmer
Unpack
Pre- Process of Packaging
Return
Post- Process of Packaging
Options Display
Trash
Transaction
Sell
Recycle
Recycle
Return Trash
Payment Choose
Consumer
Urban Farming Model
This is a model of a urban farmthat shows the steps
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4. Bushel – 8 gallons 17”x 17”x 11.5”
– 64 pints
– 4 pecks
–2,150 cubic inches
Peck – 1/4 bushel 8” x 8” x 6.25”
– 8 quarts (dry)
– 538 cubic inches
Quart –32 fluid ounces 6”x 6”x 3.5”
–58 cubic inches
Pint n/a 4.875” x4.875” x 2.5”
Common Name Material Common Sizes
Baskets wood 1/4,1/2 and peck; 1/2 and 1 bushel
Boxes, Cartons and Hampers corrugated paper, often waved, or wood 1/2 peck to 1 bushel
Bags paper and polyethylene, often with handles 1/4 peck to 1/2 bushel
paper bags Grocery bages- 2/3 bushel
2 bags = 1 quart
Trays corrugated paper 6-8 quarts
Fruit and Vegetable Baskets corrugated paper with handles 2 to 8 quarts
Fruit Tills or Cups pulp, cardboard, plastic, corrugated paper 1/2 pint to 4 quarts
or wood
Farming Produce Packaging
This graph shows the standards for farming
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5. Observations
These are observations of packaging and systems
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found at Rittenhouse farmer market stands. Farm
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6. Initial Sketches
These are sketches of packaging
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7. Paper pulp seeded with the fruit in the
package as well as companion plants.
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Initial Sketches
These are sketches of packaging
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8. Concept Sketches
These are sketches of packaging
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9. Concept Sketches
These are sketches of packaging
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