Root cellar pantry

Whenever we go apple picking, we get a little carried away. How many families can eat three bushel baskets of fruit before it goes bad? Solution: storage r

I kicked the food preservation into high gear this past week in order to meet my goal to have the pantry finished by the second week in November. It was a week of very little sleep.

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12:13 pm - 48 degrees - light rain and fog... You stroll out in to the garden, picking ripe fruits and vegetables, knowing that come February you’ll still be enjoying their freshness. For those of us attracted to the romantic aspects of self-sufficient life, this is an appealing scenario and one that we’re seriously looking into. After searching the internet and Pinterest – this is what I found out... {photo source: pinterest.com} Root cellars, the ancient technology that enables the…

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5.8K views · 4K reactions | Every time I place a jar of homegrown food in my pantry I often reflect on my grandmother. She lived in a time/social status that gardening was a necessity of survival. I often wonder when she walked into a store, if she looked at shelves lined with already canned food as I do when I enter my pantry and see all the food I have grown and preserved from my garden. It never ceases to how much has changed. What was something my grandparents had to do, now…