Homesteading food storage

Properly harvesting, storing, and curing potatoes can make all the difference between a potato harvest lasting only a few months and lasting all winter long. It is worth extra effort and steps to preserve this staple crop.

Learn how to store and use bulk pantry goods. This includes what types of pantry goods to buy in bulk, how to keep them fresh, and where to buy them.

Come take a pantry tour and see how we store a year's worth of food for our large family of 13. We hope these tips come in handy for you!

Learn how to slowly and simply build a pantry that keeps your home running, no matter what. A practical guide for real families who want to feel ready, without panic or overwhelm.

A root cellar is so incredibly useful. What if you don't have one? Here are some ideas on how to store produce or even make your own!

Begin your journey with 11 Ways to Start Preserving Food at Home, a key resource for prepper food storage. From root cellars to pressure canning, this guide offers options for every space, taste, and budget. A comprehensive guide for those looking to enhance their food preservation skills. Explore more about historical food preservation and homestead survival at practicalselfreliance.com.

It’s a new year! Let’s get your food storage started! Having a backup supply of food is great not only for emergencies, but you also never run out of ingredients. Gone are the phone calls

How to Store a Year's Worth of Food for Your Family (Without Waste and Overwhelm) • The Prairie Homestead

Supercharge a root cellar and build a homestead cold room instead! With a cold room you’ll have more versatility for your homestead or farm.

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.

Autumn is a season of plenty. Here’s how to store any leftover crop safely and mitigate against a spring shortage. Words: Sheryn Dean When I designed my block, I declared I would grow enough of my own fresh fruit and vegetables year-round that there would be no need to preserve and store. This was wrong. Crops like garlic, onions, and pumpkin produce just once a year. While I may well have fresh fruit, I realised I would get quite sick of eating only citrus all winter and think fondly of the…

7 Secrets to preserving tons of food. These secrets help us to grow and preserve a year's supply of meat and vegetables for our family of six!

When storage solutions are running low in the house, a shed can also serve as a great food storage area.

Start saving money every month just by making things from scratch instead of buying and soon you'll be much more self sufficient. This giant list of homestead skills is perfect for the beginner homemaker just like you!

The Amish are masters of off-grid living for centuries. Here are some of the Amish powerless tools you should get before the next big blackout:

We’ll break down how to store potatoes from the garden and the best tips and methods to keep them firm and fresh for months.

While not all of us have a root cellar (I don’t), we can make the most of the storage spaces we have. Ventilation is very important if you want to prolong the life of your vegetables. In the ideal root cellar set up, you would have a cold air intake vent at the base of the root cellar wall and on an opposite wall and the top would be the warm air outtake vent. Cross ventilation is best. In my basement, I don’t have either of those things, but it is unheated, and it’s not closed off tight…

Long before the modern conveniences of refrigeration, people were storing their food using time-tested methods like larders, root cellars, canning, drying, fermenting, and smoking. #homesteadsurvivalsite #foodstorage #emergencyfood #survivalfood #offgrid