Off-the-grid families, homesteading Americans, and the prepper community have many things in common, one of which is the desire to live a self-reliance existence on a shoestring budget. It is entirely possible to build a cheap, sturdy and earth-friendly cellar ...
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How To Store Your Saved Heirloom Seeds
Savor fresh onions, potatoes and other crops from the garden all winter long with the use of simple, time-honored storage techniques. The art of storing vegetables, roots, and seeds has kept whole communities fed and nourished for centuries, and can ...
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March 14, 2013 Our build of the root cellar. We reused old chicken incubators and earth bags to build our very low cost, simple, yet functional root cellar. Previous Video
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Root vegetables are like the backup calorie base. They can add bulk and nutrition when the “pantry” cannot (like when you are sick of bread). Used in conjunction with the pantry items (flour, fats, grains, starches, etc.), the root vegetables ...
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The last winter crops are in from the garden, and in spite of mild weather in some parts, it may still be a little too early to plant anything in your neck of the woods. This slack time can be ...
Read More »Vegetable Storage: Getting to the Root of the Problem
Here is a hypothetical situation that some of you may have thought about in the past. You are self-sufficient, either relying very little or not at all upon pre-packaged food. In point of fact, you grow your own. Living off ...
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