This week I posted a video apportion some sentiment on how to maintain a winter food supply :
fundamentally , we keep a even supplying of food through the chillier months via :
Our cow are a peachy grace , as we get three gallons of Milk River per day right through the winter . When you have Milk River , you could also have cheese , yogurt , butter , kefir and other dairy farm products that are alimental and satisfy .
We can take five gallons of milk and skim off the cream to make butter , then make a undecomposed - sized tall mallow from the remaining milk .
Then we can take the remaining milk whey and soak metric grain in it for our chickens , raising the protein and nutrition they get , and/or we can feed it to our piglets to fatten up them up . We can also drink it ourselves !
We do n’t add lights to the chicken chicken coop , so we only get a few egg a day through winter – yet those few ballock do help oneself keep us fed .
In the fall , we slaughter two bull and the deep-freeze is full of pork right now , which means we are quite set for meals . I ’ve made one slab of bacon so far and plan on starting to cure two more today , as the first bacon was delicious and turn out quite well . We ’ve also made fantastically good breakfast sausage with our ground porc and will be make more as we knead our way through the 400 + lbs of centre in the deep-freeze .
When the plant foods are mostly gone due to the inhuman , animal nutrient are often still uncommitted .
Growing Vegetables that Take the Cold
We have multiple vegetables still attend on in the garden right now , including rutabagas , green onion , mustards , pak choi and daikon radishes . These can take temperature down into the low mid-twenties .
We ’re hypothecate to reach the mid - teen next workweek , however , which means we ’ll have to embrace our vegetable beds with sheet for a few nights . They should outlive , but if they do n’t , we still have lots of stored veg from summertime and fall .
Storing Garden Produce Through Winter
We have n’t do n’t much canning over the last couple of years , but we do keep a lot of radical and pumpkin through winter . Our favored pumpkin varieties are foresighted - custodian , like the Seminole autumn pumpkin , and they baby-sit around our house as decorations until we use up them all . This usually does n’t pass until some time next summertime . We still have C of pound of pumpkin mightily now !
We also stash away sweet Solanum tuberosum and true yams in cardboard boxes , often layered in dry hay , and deplumate them as we involve them . Between these store theme , the pork in the electric refrigerator , and a few fresh cold - dauntless vegetable and herbs in the garden , we eat well decent through the winter .
We are fortunate to live in a mood with comparatively mild winters , as we only involve to prepare for about 4 - 5 months of occasional garden - kill frosts ; yet this would normally be a thirsty season , since even one night in the teens effectively cease all the H.M.S. Bounty of summertime . Over the years , we ’ve puzzle better at growing easygoing - to - store crop in summer and flow with some cold - hardy plant over the wintertime in bed outdoors – and we ’ve gotten much better at managing animate being on the homestead and furnish our own meat and cooking adipose tissue ( lard ) .
It ’s potential to stay fed in the winter , especially if you copy the ant , not the grasshopper .
