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4 Ways to Preserve and Store Food

By Annie

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Whether you grow your own vegetables or take advantage of farmers markets, you need a way to preserve and store that food for several months. Here’s 4 ways to preserve and store food.

Stocking up in September & October when the harvest is plentiful is a great way to do it.

Prices are lower and there are a lot of choice veggies available.

Below, I’ve linked up some of our best posts on preserving food, take a look!

(Want a complete list of all of our preserving articles? They’re right here)

 

Here are 4 ways to preserve and store food:

 

Harvested carrots and lovage

 

Storing some food is a great way to save money. Prices are definitely going to be higher all winter long, because of the lower local supply and the same high demand.

Starting your own stockpile of food is a way to save some money and start to feel more in control of your own personal food supply.

 

A basket of fresh garden greens sits on a kitchen counter

 

Freezing Food

You can freeze some veggies. Every summer, I freeze a one year supply of shelled green peas. And why not?

They taste fresh all winter long and don’t take long to make.

Plus, it’s guaranteed rocking time in the late afternoons – someone has to shell all the peas!

 

 

Canned carrots and pickled beets on a counter

 

Canning Food

You can home can some veggies. Want to water bath can some Pickled Beets? How about pressure canning some Green Beans?

Home canning food can completely fill your pantry – you can literally save thousands of dollars a year canning extra food.

 

Fresh kale trimmed and washed on a cutting board

 

Dehydrating Food

You could dehydrate lots of different types of fruits, vegetables and even meat. Once food is dehydrated it takes up a lot less room.

That means extra freezer room for you to stock up on meat when it’s on sale.

 

basket of fresh garden produce ready for preserving

Storing Food in a Cold Room

You could store a few boxes of root vegetables down in the cool part of your basement.

But what do you do if you live in a rancher home? If you have no basement,  you have to start looking at other option.

You could look at building a small insulated and vented room in a corner of your garage. Another option is to have a root cellar.

If you don’t have room for food storage inside your house, an outdoor root cellar is a great way to go.

 


 

Built right into the ground, you can store all kinds of root vegetables inside  a root cellar.

Mother Earth News has several plans for outdoor cellars and they range from the super simple to structured cellars.

You need to live in an area where there are cold winters. You also need to put in some time digging and setting up the root cellar.

 

Use Old Freezers to Store Livestock Feed

 

I have seen pictures of outdoor root cellars but instead of being boxed in with wood, the builder instead drops an old deep freeze in the ground.

This is a great idea and would really work well. We use old freezers here down at the barn to hold animal feed.

We don’t care if the freezers work or not. And we are keeping a few old freezers out of the landfill.

Come to think of it, that’s where we got the three we have. A great way to recycle!

 

fresh produce at a market

 

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