Ag Stem Gallery: The Storage Experience

$250,000 Confirmed

Visitors step inside a vegetable storage facility and learn how vegetables are kept fresh from harvest to market. Interactive media explores the clever engineering and technology that let us keep produce at incredibly precise levels of temperature, humidity, airflow, and even floor slope.

Exhibit Experiences

RINSING: KEEPING THE SOIL

When farmers rinse their produce, that muddy water is a gold mine! A giant, rotating disk full of water and particulates shows how soil separates out of rinse water. As visitors create and admire the swirling patterns, they learn about how sustainable rinsing.

STORAGE TYPE WALL

What’s that big round tower? Why is that warehouse pointy? Tap into the secrets of the farm storage that surrounds you. This supersize graphic shows the many different structures that store produce, and the specialized engineering that makes them so good at their jobs.