This is just awesome, OP! Thank you for sharing all this with us. I haven't looked at the whole thread or your website but I hope somewhere, you mention how you store the food, too!
Awesome job!!!! Thank you!
Thanks for the nice comments :)
I have yet to really get into storing what I grow other than outdoor sweet corn, which I grow huge amounts of and freeze because I love it so much, and cucumbers, because I like pickles so much. Right now my whole focus is on how to provide sufficient fresh food 365 days/yr so that storage isn't needed.
That said, food storage is incredibly important, and I don't mean to knock it by being focused on year-round fresh food production. If you or anybody else has a good thread on food storage to recommend, please feel free to share it in this thread.
What a great idea to focus on eating fresh every day. I like that.
Back when I checked out how to store food, I looked into a couple of things that I liked. One was a family I knew in Northern Canada, they had a cellar in the basement. It had a room in it with shelves and bins.
They stored vegetables in there all winter. I am sure they had to check the bins and make sure the vegetables were getting enough air. I remember she used old hose to store some of the veggies in.
But, they would just go down there and get whatever they wanted. It was surrounded by some fencing so mice couldn't get in there.
Another thing I saw was a shed that was built with double insulation. It had real thick walls and they used it for food storage. It seems like they also stored meat in there but I'm not sure about that. But, even in heat or cold, it held a good temperature for their vegetables, year round.
Dehydrating is a good way to store food and it takes less space for storage. I used to dehydrate in the back window of my car, lol! It's a great way to preserve and a person could build some kind of solar room or shed for large amounts of food to be dehydrated. You can use the food dehydrated or re-hydrate it and use it.
I'll be interested to see what else people are doing for food storage. I am sure there are some great ideas floating around. :)
