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Post by Chuck on Feb 8, 2005 16:40:08 GMT -5
What is your favorite way of putting up your harvest-game, wild gathered greens and herbs, garden, and livestock for food? We freeze most of our meat in the winter then can it in the spring for summer use. Most of the garden produce and wild thing we gather in the summer and fall are dried or made into something and canned. What is your favorite way of putting up the harvest? Alaska HOMESTEADING Journal
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Post by kasilofhome on Feb 23, 2005 15:28:41 GMT -5
Freezing is #1 with me canning is # 2 with me
And last but very often Rotting, Sprouting discusting creation of " cold storage.
potatoes, pumpkin, beets onion and hard squach.
HELP ME Do better. The un heated closed in loft with a temp of 40- 50 was my plan --failed
it is a metal roofed area it suckup so much heat that we just insultated it closed. with the metal (tinfoil bubble stuff) but the potatoes are the only things that did not spoil,, just sprouted Got an indoor garden.
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Post by smwon on Feb 23, 2005 18:10:59 GMT -5
Can't really help you much at the moment cause I live in the city (for now) with all the amenities. But I can tell you what I would like to do... I prefer frozen over canned, but canned meat can be very good. I use to raise rabbits and canned it all. I would use a little of all three now, freezing, root cellaring and canning. I remember a time when I was first married (many, many years ago) we shot a moose, out of season, but there she was. We gutted her and just let her freeze. When we wanted some meat (it was frozen hard) we would use a meat saw and cut some off. With just the two of us, it lasted all winter. Being in the interior of Ak, keeping it froze wasn't a problem. I’ve never had a root cellar, but I do plan to have one when I make the move out of the city into the boonies (no matter where the boonies may be).
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Post by pipedreams on Jan 19, 2006 12:32:39 GMT -5
Freezing is great IF the power is constant...........but even when it is running a freezer ads quite a bit to enery costs.
That said, most of mine is frozen...............but I've been doing more and more canning lately. Once it's canned it's good to go for while.
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Post by spirit on Feb 9, 2006 19:17:27 GMT -5
I really like canning!We even canned out sausage turned out great.I think with the climate there most meats would stay frozen till spring.I have much to learn.I just recently found out the frost line there is further down than I thought.
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Post by Freeholdfarm on Jul 9, 2006 20:51:36 GMT -5
In Tok, in a cabin with no electricity or running water, we were able to keep stuff frozen all winter by keeping it outside. We had a small shed we used for a freezer; one of my brothers sometimes uses a vehicle for a freezer in the winter, since dogs and such can't get into it. We also had a space under the cabin that served as a root cellar and also a place to store canned goods. We canned a lot of salmon and other meat, as well.
Kathleen
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Post by smwon on Jul 10, 2006 20:30:28 GMT -5
Kathleen... that is a good idea ... in Alaska anyway or anyplace that gets below feezing all winter.
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