“Winter comes, and our cupboard shelves in the snug stone cellar are an art gallery of crimson and green and brown and white jars. We have canned raspberries, blueberries, peas, beans, a few beets, some apple sauce from windfalls, grape jelly, fifty quarts of canned yellow corn, many quarts of beef stew and beef soup stock, also pork. A five-gallon keg of cider sits in the corner. In a wooden bin are twelve bushels of Green Mountain potatoes, and we have bought three barrels of apples. Our rutabagas, most of our beets and carrots are stored in layers of sand. There are bushels of onions and a hundred Danish Ball Head cabbages laid out on rough shelves.” Self SufficiencyFood SecurityFood StorageRoot Cellar Book:Green Mountain Farm Source: Green Mountain Farm
“In winter we often go down to the cellar and contemplate the art gallery. When a blizzard is howling outside is the best time.” WinterPreservationSelf SufficiencyFood SecurityFood StorageRoot Cellar Book:Green Mountain Farm Source: Green Mountain Farm