If you're preparing for a long-term emergency, you'll want to stockpile foods that can last up to 30 years. Here are 30 to choose from.
Here are 9 food-storage tips to help you save time, money, and most importantly reduce food waste.
Wondering how to grow enough food for a year? How much room you need per person, container and vertical gardening, soil etc, it's all here!
Whenever we go apple picking, we get a little carried away. How many families can eat three bushel baskets of fruit before it goes bad? Solution: storage r
Find out how to grow food in buckets. Here's you'll find a guide to creating wicking buckets and a chart showing what you can grow.
Stop tossing out your veggies! Read these tried-and-true ways to store vegetables and how to keep them fresh, longer!
If you aren't storing your carrots in water, you need to read this.
Learn how use homegrown produce with tips to cook, store, and preserve garden veggies, recipe and meal ideas, and ways to reduce food waste.
We all hate that moment when the vegetable garden meets the first years frost. We see those leaves we worked so hard to grow get translucent and die.
I grow hundreds of pounds of food every year, have no root cellar and just one refrigerator. So how do I do it? Like this. First of all I'm going to say this is how I store my stuff. Someone reading this from an extension office is probably trying to look at the above photo...Read More
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!
Discover these time and money-saving kitchen and food hacks such as freezing leftover herbs with olive oil or using lemon juice or vinegar to revive wilted vegetables. Simple but brilliant!
A DIY solar food dehydrator is an inexpensive way to save your garden produce for year-round use. Drying food this way is effective and free!
Boost your garden harvest with these tried and true tips. Learn how to maximize space for healthier, more productive plants.
How to keep real food fresh, avoid food waste, and ultimately save money on real food. Simple tips you can begin using right now!
We can't always explain why these gardening tips work, but no use in worrying about that when it comes to growing food for your family.
When I set the goal to eat only the veggies from my garden for a whole year, I had one big problem. I had no idea how many plants we needed to grow for a years worth of food! Since I grow for six people in a 3500 square foot garden with some space allocated for fruits, my amounts needed to be precise.
Do you have area in your home that stays cool during the winter months? If so, you can make use of these cold spots to keep storage crops fresh well into winter. Try experimenting with growing some of these vegetables for winter food storage.
Food storage tips for when the fridge alone is not adequate. Store your veggies, fruits and dry foods using these simple techniques.
Having an effective seed storage & organization system saves you time and money, and makes garden planning easier.
You might be surprised at all the foods you can grow in buckets on your balcony, porch, or patio. Here are some best foods to grow.
Knowing where our food comes from gives us confidence in its quality, plus you can save money each year through gardening and food storage efforts.
Do you have area in your home that stays cool during the winter months? If so, you can make use of these cold spots to keep storage crops fresh well into winter. Try experimenting with growing some of these vegetables for winter food storage.
A survival seed bank is a collection of seeds that you can use to grow a large and diverse garden in a survival scenario.
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 from the rest of the house so it does get some ventilation, though not the ideal kind.
Check out this easy-to-build DIY 2x4 harvest and drying rack - a perfect way to ripen or dry fresh vegetables coming from your garden!
I'll admit, I have a lot of romantic notions about a root cellar. I'd love to build one, a real one, dug deep into a hillside here on the homestead. Unfortunately, our land has a
Tossing out food that has gone bad is so frustrating, because that's money down the drain! Luckily, food waste is avoidable if you know a few easy tricks! Check out this list of 36 brilliant ways to keep your food fresh for longer, and save money while you're at it.
Here are 4 awesome ways to preserve and store food. Stock up on grocery store sales, farmers markets or harvest your own. Canning, freezing & more. Here's..
Take advantage of your local farmers’ markets and farm stands in the fall and stock up on these locally grown crops for your winter food storage.
How to grow potatoes in garden soil, pots, or containers easily with big yields! Great tips & best ways to plant, harvest & store potatoes.
Growing your own groceries in five-gallon buckets allows you to raise enough food to feed a family of four in a tiny space.
Do you want to garden but life keeps getting in the way? Try out these time-saving tips to grow more food in less time!
The hardest work of the gardening season is over, and you’re bringing in your potato harvest. Or maybe you've visited your local farmers' market and got a little carried away buying farm fresh potatoes. Nights
Simple process to help make fruits and veggies last longer in the fridge that you can add to your weekly meal prep.
To be a successful homesteader, you need to have a variety of homesteading skills: gardening, food storage, animal husbandry, and more.
Whether you are planting a survival garden out of necessity, preparedness, or simply to become more self reliant, you will appreciate the feeling of security it provides! Learn which plants to select for long term food supplies, nutrition and herbal remedies as well as how to design your garden for sustainability.
There are four factors that make a crop good for a survival garden: ease of growth, ease of storage, nutritional content, and caloric content.
Discover DIY hanging baskets to actual make bins that look just like the ones in department stores – only they are a lot cheaper to DIY.
Food preservation methods go way beyond the modern techniques we use today. Older techniques like salting, fermenting, and dehydrating have their place, even in modern kitchens. Learn about all the different ways you can extend
This article focuses on the food storage lessons that could be learned from WWII. During this time resources were limited and people had to struggle along with the soldiers. That is a decidedly different look than war fighting in the modern age.
By Bethany Hayes One of the primary purposes of vegetable gardening is to stock up on food that you don’t need to buy from the store. However, you don’t want to spend all day throughout the summer canning, fermenting, and dehydrating. That’s why you need to grow some vegetables for long-term storage. Years and years […]
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.
When I set the goal to eat only the veggies from my garden for a whole year, I had one big problem. I had no idea how many plants we needed to grow for a years worth of food! Since I grow for six people in a 3500 square foot garden with some space allocated for fruits, my amounts needed to be precise.
