Re: food preservation/Re: Question for NT homesteaders

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At 02:28 PM 8/4/2004, you wrote:

>If anyone is wondering about specifics, I used half-gallon mason jars

>placed in plastic tubs with lids (typical cheap Walmart ones), and

>then placed bales of hay around and on top of the plastic containers.

>It was easy to lift the bales off the top and get out a few jars as

>needed.

>

>Mike

>SE Pennsylvania

this method will work for just nearly anything, actually - you can preserve

fresh stuff that way minus the jars: ie, just layer your

potatoes/apples/whatever in hay in the tubs, and surround the tubs with

haybales. then you only have to lift the top bale off to get at your stuff!

-katja