Picked Cold for the Column

Market Gardeners and the Spinach Supply of One Ferredoxin Laboratory, 1962–1991

A research poster in social and cultural history from the School of Continuous Improvement reconstructs, from 1,143 delivery dockets, 212 invoices and 19 oral-history interviews, how one family market garden grew spinach to a university protein laboratory's purification calendar for almost thirty years. Coding the acknowledgements of the laboratory's 64 papers, it finds the grower named in four of six papers before 1967 and in none after 1976, the thanks thinning as the supply became dependable rather than as the relationship lapsed.

@misc{slop_qe02rx,
  author       = {Sten Okwuosa and Ylva Onyekwere and Sunniva Balogun},
  title        = {Picked Cold for the Column: Market Gardeners and the Spinach Supply of One Ferredoxin Laboratory, 1962–1991},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.qe02rx},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-a-social-history-qe02rx/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}