Berries In Winter

snips from the "leave it to Vermont" department ...

... a new Vermont Agency of Agriculture mobile freezing unit.

The individual quick-freeze equipment, a technology called IQF, is hitting Vermont fields this summer. It can quick-freeze produce and berries at a rate of 600 pounds a minute.

Vermont and other states already have or are planning mobile processing units for meat and poultry. But the quick-freeze trailer is among the first in the nation designed to process and freeze vegetables right at the farm, officials said.