There's an old-fashioned solution to the problem of fresh produce going bad. Store fruits and veggies in a root cellar or other cold storage location! This book provides you with step-by-step plans on how to build a root cellar--or utilize the one you've got. Professional farmer Catherine Abbott teaches you: How to effectively organize your root cellar Where to store fruits and vegetables in unconventional places What the best fruits and vegetables are for storing Ways to preserve, dry, and freeze a variety of foods to enjoy all winter long Recipes for fresh fruits, berries, veggies, and herbs to cook all year round Featuring illustrations for building root cellars as well as a full nutritional breakdown for all 150 recipes, you will love this comprehensive guide. Before long, you'll know how to provide yourself and your family with great nutritious foods all year long!
Root cellaring, as Mike and Nancy Bubel explain here, is a no-cost, simple, low-technology, energy-saving way to keep the harvest fresh all year long. In Root Cellaring, the Bubels tell how to successfully use this natural storage approach.
This book will walk anyone through the process of building and using a root cellar to store their fruits and vegetables for later use, through the cold winter months when even the most basic items can cost an arm and a leg.
Storing food makes good sense, both financially and environmentally. And root cellars can easily fit anywhere. In this intelligent, convincing book, authors Megyesi and Hansen show how to make them part of every reader’s life.
There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.
Collects recipes for two hundred and fifty recipes that utilize winter vegetables, including shrimp egg rolls, leek and goat cheese pizza, Southern-style mashed rutabagas or turnips, and coconut curried winter squash soup.
The text is accompanied by period illustrations from the agricultural literature along with archaeological photographs.
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The benefits of a root cellar are enormous-health, financial, physical, and psychological. This book on root cellaring will introduce you to the fascinating concept of root cellars and walk you through how to build one.
In this book Match in the Root Cellar, Chris McGoff allows you to journey along with Carolyn, a composite character based on real-life people, to learn and see how it's up to everyone to work through the struggles and find a way to redefine ...