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Storing grains is very easy, and many people stocking for emergency rations find that grains, pasta, and beans are the easiest to buy and keep for long periods of time. Almost all pasta, grains, and beans are bought from the ...

  There are few things in life quite as delicious as homemade bread warm and fresh from the oven! Baking your own bread is wonderful because it allows you to get preservative and chemical-free bread, any time that you want ...

From the crisp mornings and yellowing leaves to football games and the start of another school year, there’s no denying that fall is in the air. While fall induces thoughts of warm apple pie, tailgate parties, and hot cocoa, it’s ...

Most people never give the food they buy at the supermarket a second thought. They buy it, cook it, and eat it. However, if a cataclysmic event suddenly caused that food to be gone, what would happen? Suppose a nuclear ...

I’ve been interested in food storage for about twenty-five years. My husband and I started our food storage as newlyweds. On our meager budget, we worked slowly to build the basic staples—wheat, oil, honey, and beans—followed by canned goods, baking ...

You may have seen in the news that the state of California will soon be voting as to whether or not to have GMOs labeled in their state in the near future. You may also have seen that Monsanto has ...

For thousands of years people have been preserving seeds, and not just for consumption. Properly stored seeds ensure that farmers have seeds to plant new crops the following year, and they also ensure the survival of healthy plant strains. The ...

If you haven’t considered what would happen without power, start by looking in your kitchen. Your refrigerator would no longer work. Meats and perishables would spoil quickly. While we all want to think we won’t ever be without electricity, no ...

As you line up your freshly sterilized glass jars and get ready to can your bumper crop of beans and your bubbling crockpot filled with garden-fresh spaghetti sauce, you can’t help but think of the scores of women who spent ...

Fall is coming, and now is the perfect time to think about cool weather planting.  One of the hardy mainstays in the garden is garlic.  Garlic is a member of the Allium (onion) family, and as such, it is a ...