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The Joy of Keeping a Root Cellar: Canning, Freezing, Drying, Smoking, and Preserving the Harvest
By Jennifer Megyesi and Geoff Hansen
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With “helpful tips, recipes, charts, gorgeous photographs, and personal anecdotes,” this guide to keeping a root cellar is “a pleasure to leaf through” (Library Journal)
The winning team behind The Joy of Keeping Chickens returns with a complete guide to building and maintaining a root cellar—even if it’s just a dark and cool closet. This cheap, easy, energy-saving practice will keep the harvest fresh all year long.
Root cellaring isn’t just for homesteaders or farmers with large gardens. Storing food makes good sense, both financially and environmentally. And root cellars can easily fit anywhere. In this charming and informative book, author Jennifer Megyesi and photographer Geoff Hansen show readers how to make them part of every reader’s life.
This volume covers:
Which fruits and vegetables store best
How to build a root cellar in the country, suburbs, or city
How to deal with specific environmental challenges
Storage techniques ranging from canning to pickling and smoking to drying
Recipes for everything from tomato sauce to venison jerky
The winning team behind The Joy of Keeping Chickens returns with a complete guide to building and maintaining a root cellar—even if it’s just a dark and cool closet. This cheap, easy, energy-saving practice will keep the harvest fresh all year long.
Root cellaring isn’t just for homesteaders or farmers with large gardens. Storing food makes good sense, both financially and environmentally. And root cellars can easily fit anywhere. In this charming and informative book, author Jennifer Megyesi and photographer Geoff Hansen show readers how to make them part of every reader’s life.
This volume covers:
Which fruits and vegetables store best
How to build a root cellar in the country, suburbs, or city
How to deal with specific environmental challenges
Storage techniques ranging from canning to pickling and smoking to drying
Recipes for everything from tomato sauce to venison jerky
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