No Root Cellar? No problem. This is how we've successfully stored thousands of pounds of food.
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Our systems for how we've been successfully able to store thousands of pounds of food without a root cellar.
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Hunni you need to remove the rings from your canning jars and best to have even some card board between the jars stacking them. With the rings on, it can with hold false sealing - it’s harder to tell if a seal has popped up. All canning books tell you this.
its to my understanding that you should store potatoes and onions seperatley and keep them spaced apart using straw or pine shavings to stop the rot or root phase
Yes! Good call. Onions and potatoes should be stored separately.
Agreed, It is all about adaptability/circumstance. Great ideas, close to my situ 👍
I live in Arkansas Ozarks and I just use a couple of extra bales of straw for potatoes in the fall and they stay in tho ground till ready to dig out. What we don’t use comes up in the Spring so I never replant
New sub! Loved the video! Over the last couple of years we have been trying to grow and put up as much food as possible
Awesome! I couldn’t imagine a more rewarding lifestyle. Thanks so much for watching!!
You're doing exactly what my Great Aunt did back in the 1940s-1970s.
That brought a smile to our faces :) Sometimes the way forward is looking back. Thanks for sharing and watching!
@@FromScratchFarmstead We can always learn from what folks did previously. The trick is to know when what our ancestors did was beneficial, and when it was harmful. (I.e., bloodletting to "relieve" the demons inside. 😸 )
Do you have a furnace in the basement? How do you keep the basement cool in the winter if a furnace is there? How do you keep the humidity out when it rains? How do you keep rodents out?
Good job.
It is so sweet how Joelle is always looking up to Jim, with such a warmth and love! You are such a loveley family, and your videos are so nice ☺️
❤️❤️❤️ thanks so much for watching!
Yep. No basement. 😞
Thank you for the information.
Our carrots and beets we store in big plastic totes packed in damp sand. They were firm, taste fresh out of the garden well into June and even into July.
Wow, that’s so awesome that they can store that long! Thanks for watching!!
How do you deal with the humidity in your basement during the very humid parts of the summer?
Also, I keep 2 Have-A-Heart mousetraps set in my basement 24/7. If I catch a mouse, I take the trap with me on the way out with my car to do errands and let the mouse go at a convenient place in the woods. No muss, no fuss and no blood and guts to deal with. Suits me.
Great ideas! Just wondering if you have any recipes for eating all that squash!
This video shows a few different ways to use them.
Our Weekly Routine to Include Winter Squash - Perfect for Storing, High in Nutrients and Energy
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Thanks for watching!!
What about mice 🐭?
We do have some traps set up and thankfully haven't had any major issues!
Sweet. Potatoes. Ours store near 2 years in bins in the basement. No special climate control (temp/humidity) at all. Relatively pest and disease free compared to other crops. Easy to propagate and produce your own slips. 100 pounds per adult per year is a good target anyone with land/space should easily handle.
Awesome, thanks for sharing! We love sweet potatoes but haven't ventured too much into growing them yet. Something to look forward too! Thanks for watching!
I know you said you used fridges to store onions, carrots etc.... question are they used just for storage or are the ON so chilled. Thank you!
Good question - We have them on! Thanks for watching!
A vacuum sealer will stop the frost on frozen stuff. I love mine . GOD BLESS
Good call! Might be a good investment at some point. Thanks for watching!
Boosted my confidence in starting this project this year! Love the kale idea for soups 😍
Awesome!! So glad this was helpful! Simple and practical is our jam :) All the best on your journey!
I don’t have a cool basement or root cellar wish I did
Yes, indeed, it is inspirational. Good for you!
Yes, I do much the same, and have for years. The difference is that I don't have a basement, but I do have a 'heated' tack room in the barn. The barn well comes up to the holding tank in there and I put in a couple heaters so the water doesn't freeze in Vermont winters. So, keeping that room at about 40-degrees or a bit more is great for my crates of potatoes, canned goods, etc. I grow a ton of winter squash, I dehydrate summer squashes. Canning tomatoes at the moment. With my tomatoes, once I've canned enough, I'll continue to make sauce and I put four or five pans of lasagna in the freezer. I use those aluminum pans you fold the top over the cardboard top, and put them in a bag. Also enchiladas go in the freezer. These are fantastic for busy spring days when you're outside in the garden, etc., or just pulling one out in the winter. Nice videos! OH, also, winter squash/pumpkin are also a good additive to the dog food. I have a book of dog food recipes so I can feed them a balanced diet with home cooked/grown food, in addition to keeping kibble on hand as well.
MICE: Make a 'T' out of 2" PVC, and get the green rodent chunk poison with the hole in the middle. Put some chunks on a piece of balin' wire or similar and put it in the top. The mice go in the sides, eat, die, and you don't worry that something else will get at it even if it is behind a shelf, behind the hay in the hay shed, etc.
Thanks for sharing, this is very helpful!!
@@FromScratchFarmstead I'm so happy you think so. Take care, :)
Love your set up. I wish I had a cellar. We live in a double wide home but it doesn't have a foundation and our land is mostly rocks. So even a in-ground root cellar is out of the question. Great video. Thank you for sharing with us.
I’m glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!!
Got the same problem. Have a crawl space but we have freeze/thaw cycles here in NETN that make me wonder if using the crawl space is a waste of time. Then there's also rodents!
Would spuds and pumpkins last awhile stacked under your beds😊
Great video covering the info clearly. We are almost twinsies with our food storge. We don't have a basement, but the potatoes and winter squash do great in a metal detached garage that has a Mr. Cool mini split. We keep it on 42 degrees all winter. We have a conditioned crawl, but it stays a tad too warm and potatoes sprout there.... however! It's the perfect temp for sweet potatoes. We have had them last a full year down there.
That's so good to know!! We are hoping we'll have a good sweet potato harvest this year!
I thought onions were not supposed to be stored in the refrigerator. Am I wrong?
We store them in bins, just away from potatoes which can help them ripen faster. Thanks for watching!
So yum 😋 you knocked it out of the park again Lisa! Hi from New Zealand 🇳🇿 💛
Hi Lisa! Thanks so much!
I live in a southern 1954 house with limited closet space. No basement. Any other ideas welcome???
Without actually digging some kind of root cellar I’m not sure I have any great ideas for you. There are ways reprogram a fridge to run at warmer temps which might be able to work. But I’ve only heard of that and don’t have firsthand experience. You might be able to store things in a fridge in a garage. Thanks for watching!
What if you didn't have a basement, how would you store it?
You could create something similar in a shed or dedicated space in an outbuilding with taking some measures to possibly control temperature and keep rodents out. Thanks for watching!
I live in Az. This is a big storage issue because of heat.
That makes sense! I know that have portable cooling units to maybe make some sort of cool room in? This is something we'd love to do eventually. Even our basement is not optimal temperatures for food storage. Thanks for watching!
Not trying to sound scary or anything, but what do you guys do about the gasses from the veggies in storage? I have heard that root cellaring in your basement or in a non vented crawl space can build up off gasses from the veggies aging and can actually kill you by seeping into the house. This was my biggest concern with our new home, as it has a “Michigan basement” which I wanted to finish out a bit to make it into a root cellar, but I will not have enough money this year to install piping and fans for a ventilation system.
Interesting! We've honestly never heard of this. Do you have more resources? Thanks for sharing and watching!
Yes ... a whole family died from these gasses
I would think that veggies stored are okay until the rot sets in. That's where this issue could rear its ugly head.
It appears that these folks have a good handle on it by checking weekly.
The only thing not good together are apples and potatoes. The gases from apples ruin the potatoes. No danger to us
Potatoes are especially dangerous as they produce extremely toxic gases - that's what killed the family mentioned in the comments. But that was likely in an older building that did not have good ventilation in the basement. Keepng an eye on the potaoes and not allowing them to rot will prevent this.
I love how you keep it real. ❤
That's a great question! I would think they would be compatible to do it that way to but I'd reach out to ProOne to check and make sure!
Yeah….no basement, no root cellar. Joys of the west coast.:(
That definitely makes it more challenging! We’ve looked into creating a cold storage space with a coolbot… could be an option. Thanks for watching!
Very inspirational “work with what you have” wonderful 😊 Thank you for sharing. 😊
Thanks so much for the encouragement and for watching!!
Amazing and great set up! I wish that would work down here in the southern States. I'll keep searching for a way to do it though.
It can definitely be challenging depending on your location! We’ve looked into creating a cold storage space with a coolbot… might be an option to look into. Thanks for watching!
The things you keep in the fridges....are the fridges running? If they are actually running, do you keep the temp at 45 -50 degrees? Or do the things you keep in them keep well with no cooling necessary?
Hey! The fridges are running and act as our cold storage. That's for things like carrots, cabbage, beets, etc. We don't set those fridges really cold - probably around the 40°F range - just cold enough to help keep everything fresh. Thanks for watching!
Just found you guys! (And subscribed, lol) This year, we're going into our second-year garden since we moved to our small farm in East TN. I had been concerned about storage but this has really given me hope! We have a large basement and I was wondering how to best make use of the space. We already installed a large space for a canned food pantry, and I really like the ideas you shared in this video. I look forward to checking out more of your videos! Thank you!
Awesome! So glad this was helpful. Thanks for watching and subscribing!!
@@FromScratchFarmstead You're welcome, and thank YOU for making all this info available! :-)
A gardener just has to find the right crops. Summer is too hot to grow storage potatoes in the south, since you have to dig them in June and they'll be sprouting by October. Sweet potatoes, though, thrive in the southern half of the US.
Yes! We tried sweet potatoes up here and it didn’t go over so well 😅. But storage potatoes grow like crazy. Definitely depends on your growing zone - we’re zone 5. Thanks for watching!
Fridge puts off heat if wasn’t thought of yet w potatoes next to.
Good thought! Might need to rethink the fridge location. Thanks for watching!!
And how you prevent rodents?
Thankfully, it hasn't been a huge issue (fingers crossed). We do have traps set up for mice just in case and have had a few here and there but they've never gotten into anything. Thanks for watching!
Do you do any canning?
Yep! Not a crazy amount but we make sure to have enough tomato and apple sauce for the year and a few others things as we are able. Thanks for watching!
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Thanks so much for the comment and for watching ❤️
you sure this showing of your storage on utube ,?? is wise??
Our mindset is to hopefully inspire instead of create fear. Thanks for watching!
Great practical advice!
Your videos are very informative. You answer many of my questions. Thank you!
Appreciate the feedback and thanks for watching!
What is your back up system if your source of heat goes out ?
Get creative :). Thanks for watching!
Nice, you guys get 5 more kids, alright.
Ha! We'll see! Thanks for watching!
Are there any kinds of beans that you cannot eat dried?
There are some beans that people prefer eating fresh (but you could eat the dried seeds), we just prefer to grow beans for storage. Hope this helps! Thanks for watching!
Nice video Full of information Thanks
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!
Down south we have no basements.
Maybe a shed or space in an outbuilding? Thanks for watching!
👀 That's a lot of squash! -- thanks for sharing
There’s so many yummy ways to cook em up! Thanks for watching!!
Thank You! ❤❤❤
You're welcome!
No root cellar? No problem! No basement either..? Sucks to be you I guess lol
We store everything in our basement. Thanks for watching!
I plan to store this in my pantry/closet and garage. I think I will test it out and see if it works in my garage. I actually already grow things in my detached garage in the winter in zone 7B.
Are the refrigerators on?
Yes.
Is it me or did I here a kid laugh when he was talkin at about 1:17 in the video. Seriously sounded like a child laughing and agian around 2:17. Creepy
Our 2-year-old was down there with us, just not in the camera. It's hard to keep toddlers completely quiet :)
It wasn’t creepy and you clearly didn’t watch the whole video because their child makes a brief appearance.
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👍 thanks for watching!