My grandparents raised their kids during the Great Depression. They raised a large summer vegetable garden, fruit trees, berries, nut trees and chickens. They never turned away those that showed up at their back door looking for food and work. My grandfather would ask them to do a chore like chopping wood or cleaning out the chicken coup and then would feed them a hardy meal and send them on their way. Most of these people were men on foot. My grandmother canned, and stored potatoes, other root crops and apples in her cellar. My grandfather hunted pheasant and fished the streams of the Snake River. I spent a lot of wonderful summer days in that garden with my grandparents. They didn’t abandoned their sovereign lifestyle in the better years after the depression.
I have included a free ebook on food storage: how to get started, what to store, how to store and self life of most storage items, when you download my Winter Gardening Guide.
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If you aren’t familiar with Ghi as a long term storage item, then check out our down loadable ebook on Storing the Winter Harvest. (see Garden Store at the right). We share lots of great storing ideas for the very low price of 5.95. This is a beautiful ebook illustrated by our Garden Artist, Suzanne Wood.
The Winter Gardening Guide