FOOD STORAGE when THE GRID GOES DOWN!
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Thank you for showing that you do have some 'Store brought' goods in your pantry! Whether it's for 'convenience' or it's stuff you don't or can't grow, to me it shows that _You have 'BACKUPS FOR YOUR BACKUPS' and it' SMART to do that! And I'm thinking the AMISH use a few _*__ENGLISH_* things too! That's just SMART! Be blessed! Thank you for this 'train of thought' videos your on!
Thanks Stacy 😊
You should look into converting your propane fridge to biogas. Someone did it on TH-cam. Biogas is renewable.
Appreciate these suggestions. These ideas are great for one or two people on a homestead with a creek and Amish neighbors but what about people with kids at home...especially boys who eat A LOT of food? The freezers are vital to our food storage and that little ice box would hold just about enough food for a couple of days. What are other people with kids at home doing for cold storage? Any suggestions are welcome and appreciated. Thanks for all the info.
@@gracelayne3739 absorbtion refrigeration has ben around since the 1960s.your propane fridge uses this technology. No electricity required. Recently people have figured out to use biogas (renewable) to run it and it works. Just do a TH-cam search. Look for a propane freezers. Should.be able to convert them to biogas.
I still recall one of the earliest "readers" from second grade with a story called, "Enough is Enough" about an old grandfather living off grid with basics he's contented with but whose family gifts him a new home with new appliances. At the old place, he kept his milk, butter and eggs cool in a bucket in the well but in the new place it's a refrigerator. Long story, short, all the new appliances go on the fritz or create some kind of extra work or frustration and finally, because his life was more peaceful and content living the old way, he returns to the homestead because, he says, there he had everything that was sufficient for life, and “enough is enough”. The moral being that nobody needs more than “enough”. Funny how truths never age, hmm?
I love stories like that. Simple life is so much better. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for sharing
Amen 🙏✝️
A great book on this is “Henry and the Great Society”. Great read.
Exactly, you get it
The beauty is that people will come back to connect with what is important in life.
Tip: You can also bury a "dead" old deep freezer in the ground. That way, you really don't have to insulate it, since it already is insulated but, of course, if you want too, you can add sand or something of the likes between the freezer and the dirt. Cover the top of it with a layer of straw and on top of that, some sort of lid, board or whatever you have and then layer that with straw again. Get crates of some sort that you can easily lift out from the depth of the freezer, so you don't accidentally fall head first into it... Yep, I've done that... LOL
There are many things you can do to keep your food items cooler. For now, during the winter I do have a big deep freezer that sits outside on my back porch. Being that it gets really cold over here during the winter months, it's basically turned off since the outside temps keep it cold/frozen enough.
Way back when I was between the age of 15 - 19, I lived totally off grid in an old cabin out in the forest. I learned A LOT. You need to be able to think outside of the box and if something doesn't work, take a step back, look at whatever from a different angle and go at it again. Nothing is impossible. Improbable yes but impossible, no...
Just know that if you get used to "roughing it" and you upgrade anything to be of a more on grid comfort, it's damn difficult to go back to roughing it. Same as if you're used to living on a very tight budget and manage to raise your income, it's difficult to go back to not having as much. We ARE creatures of comfort and find it very easy to upgrade. It's the down grading that is what is most difficult. Get used to downgrading now as if/when things really go south, it will make your head spin and result in having a more difficult time both surviving and being able to think about how to do something.
I'm currently 62 yrs. old, semi off grid with some of the comforts of electricity but, I also grow, forage, harvest and preserve my food for long term storage and know that I could survive without the comforts of society, even if I also know that it will suck, BIG TIME!!
I'm retired. Moved from city life. Living almost off grid too, in Smokies/mountains Appalachia since 2018.
Love the picture of your dog! I'm looking for a gsd (alsatian). Do you raise gsd's?
May GOD bless you, now...and forever.
@@moonbowmountaincottage I'm currently over in Scandinavia. Flew back here from mid BC Canada to visit my 3 adult kids that I hadn't seen for 5 yrs and, got "stuck" over here due to the whole CV hoopla mess going on in Canada with all the mandatory stuff. So, a year and a half later, I'm still over here. Originally from the US but, have no relatives or a home over there so... Thankfully the kids and I had decided to keep our small homestead over here where they grew up so, it was just getting it up and running again... Yep, a house/homestead that is more or less vacant for 5 yrs. IS a real task to get back in shape but, I did have most of the basics still out here so, I've "only" had to stock up on the food preps for the kids, their spouses, me my sweet dog and all of our cats... LOL
Yes, it is my GSD/Alsatian/Arctic wolf that I have as my picture. I brought her with me from Canada when I flew over to see the kids. I didn't want to kennel her since she is extremely bonded to me. Both due to that she is a quarter Arctic wolf but, also that I raised/bottle fed her from 4 days old since her mother died a few days after she'd given birth to my Nova and Nova's brother Jake. Found out moma still had one puppy inside that had died... Jake died a few days later but Nova was a fighter and was tucked away inside my thick winter gear/jacket and bib pants while I was working around the farm during the winter when she was a pup. So, we have a bond that is very tight. But no, I don't breed GSD's, even though I have considered letting Nova have one litter. I wouldn't mind keeping a few of her pups myself, so that she'd have someone to help with guard duties. Nova is a very sharp guard dog. Being that she was raised way off the beaten path and used to keep both 4 legged and 2 legged critters away. Not quite as off grid over here and that is a problem sometimes that there are more people closer by... She is very loyal and loving towards me but, other people including my kids, she's not very fond of. She accepts them but, on her terms...
She's also my registered Service Dog and alerts me to when I'm about to have my sugar drops. Being that she spent her first weeks inside my jacket next to my skin and has always followed me around like a shadow, she knows WHEN I'm about to crash so, I didn't have to do much training when it came to her telling me when something is wrong. When she has her gear/working vest on, she knows she's working and behaves as she is supposed to as a Service Dog. Also helps that most folks know that they're not supposed to talk to/touch/distract a working dog... Although, I can see from her body language when she feels/senses that there's someone close by that's got not so good intentions.
Sorry for the "novel" but, yes, I do love my big girl with all my heart and more.
May God bless you too and keep you safe. 🙏
@@solanisomeni you are a beautiful human. I concur so is your canine Spirit Animal :-)
@@milesdavenport8823 🙏❤️
@@solanisomeni
Wonderful. Heartwarming,,
Inspiring.
Wishing you all the best in life with your Nova. Our family has a Stratford Terrier named Nova and he is amazing also. Be blessed. ❤️
This is the kind of information I need. I really appreciate hearing it from a woman who has actually LIVED it. You are a special gift sent to us at just the right time. Thank you!
Amen!!!
When our house was built the guys goofed up and put the little L shape that was to be on the garage below grade. Great mistake because it gave us a dandy root cellar in the basement I closed it of with a wall and now have earth on 3 sides. I am going to build a wall and close off the basement pantry section outside the root cellar and hide it from sight and also keep it cooler. A shelf unit will hide the door. I recently heard someone had a burglary and food was stolen. Be prepared to hide your food storage. Our root cellar has a cold air intake and a warm air exhaust. Plug the intake in summer and open it in colder weather. Ours stays dry and cool for grain storage and garden seeds. Will need to move out grains and put moisture in when storing root crops. An open bucket of water can add moisture as well as what comes in the intake.
When I was a little girl, my town had an ice house. Ice would be harvested in the winter in large blocks, covered in saw dust and kept in a warehouse. The ice would "keep" all year until next winter. In the city, people had window boxes that they would use in the wintertime. These boxes would be hung outside your window where you could keep your food cold. Ice would be delivered by the "ice man" up to your apartment where it was put in your ice box. My grand father worked for the railroad, so all during the depression they had money. He bought my grandmother one of the first commercially available electric refrigerators. That refrigerator ran until the 1970s, and my dad used it to store his beer, lol. My mother spent her summers in the Pennsylvania countryside with her grandparents who had a root cellar. They would make their own kraut from the garden and her grand dad would make his own wine. The cellar had a dirt floor, and they climbed down there on a ladder. Anyway, that cellar kept things cool. The house was made of rock, so all during the hot summer it stayed cool. Folks knew how to made do with the natural things that God provided even up through "modern" times of the early to mid 20th Century. In the South, people had root cellars, spring houses and "sleeping" porches for when the house got so hot, they'd go out on the screened porch to sleep.
Thank you!! Will look into these ideas. What about cob and mud houses with straw in it combination i heard it can help with a 10-20 degree difference.
Check absorption refrigerators , propane, convert to biogas preferably, kerosene ( hard to find), and for small things and cheeses make a layered wool refrigerator for each family member at least.
Here's a tip you can also make a 3 or 5 layered wool possibly with the sheep's oil to make a small portable refrigerator. Food can stay anywhere from 40-50 degrees or so even in the hot summer months hot will have to mist/spray it with water a few times a day in the hot summer months since it essentially works as an evaporative cooler/swamp cooler.
To see how it looks like watch 123Homefree on TH-cam he had a few videos where you can see it but he has a documentary with kristen dirksen i think called guerilla grazing where he shows it and talks about it and he keeps his cheese that he makes and other stuff there cool enough all year long. He is the one who made it. He has also really good ideas for self sufficiency on the move.
@@andreamoscoso4065 there are cob homes in the UK that are over 500 years old. Cob is great for insulation. Basically what adobe is in our SW. Adobe homes stay pretty cool with a swamp cooler and passive cooling.
Amen
Polka Gal
Thank you for sharing your beautiful family memories.
Reminds me of my grandparents in hills of Kentucky.
So many wonderful memories.
EXCEPT!
Going to the outhouse with a foot of snow on the ground.
🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶
You had me at "you don't have to be a slave to the system"
If you have power but it occasionally goes down, keep old milk bottles filled with water/ice in the back of the freezer compartment of your refrigerator. When the power goes out, move them to the refrigerator section. As they melt, they'll give you about another day of cooling and keep the food from spoiling.
The cost of keeping them frozen for when there is an outage where they melt within a day to me is not viable and senseless. I believe we need to learn to live and store without being dependent on ice. I prefer the steel gargabe bin in the ground for keeping things cool. Things wont last as long no but at least no ice is needed. Dairy and meat will have to go and life will need to be grow your own and learn to dry and store fruit and veges.
I grew up without electricity most of the time. We did have wells. A lot of jars in the 50s, like syrup jars, had bails. Mama put everything that needed to be kept cool in one of those jars and fastened the lid on as tight as she could get it. She had lengths of clothes line tied off securely; didn't want a jar to get loose. Those jars were lowered to the bottom of the well and pulled up as needed.
Yup
Here it was the cistern that was used to hang meat in to keep cool.
@@bluebird4021 hi bluebird from greatgramma bluebird
Mom will be 80 next month, when she was a little girl, she had an ice box in the creek for things that needed refrigeration. I've been looking forward to vlog! Great tips.
So did we.
My granny kept things down in the well to keep them cool.
THANK YOU STACY!!!! LOVE THESE VIDS HELPING US WITH WHAT IS COMING SO WE CAN SURVIVE!!! I WATCH THEM OVER AND OVER AND PICK UP SOMETHING DIFFERENT EVERYTIME!!! Much love to you all and many blessings! Lord help us with what is coming!! Ordering a wild food edible book asap! 💗 love y’all!!! Thank you for caring!!!
Lots of "weeds" have as much or more nutritional value than vegetables.
We're on grid in NH. Several years ago, we had a snowstorm and power outage over Thanksgiving that lasted four days. I had no way to cook the fresh turkey, so we buried it in a snowbank, and went into town to for Thanksgiving dinner at a local restaurant, well-known for their holiday buffet. It was surprisingly excellent (for not being Thanksgiving dinner from my kitchen! - but no left-overs) Four days later I fixed a wonderful (second) Thanksgiving dinner and the turkey was perfect. Thank you snowbank!
Love your video! Planted lots of veggies and fruit this year and bought a pressure canner today. Very nervous 😬 but my mom is going to teach me how to can. Your right ! Learn as much as we can now
I do not know what type of pressure canner you got. I bought a pressure cooker that also pressers cans. Haven't tried it yet as for canning. I use to use the old method.
Read your manual very carefully. You may want to visit your department of agriculture to check your pressure gauge, but do a practice canning with water in jars first.
Always read the manual every time you use it, follow it completely and stay near by. When done, turn off the burner, let it come to a complete cool before opening. Never open while hot. You'll be okay. I get nervous too. But I won't allow anyone else in the kitchen.
Except myself. 🙏
Watch some vids on pressure canning with Bexar Prepper or rosered homestead - you'll be fine.
Luv to pressure can but I don't have one. I have the jars thinking I'm goin to get a food saver. I need to do a buddy system w someone or get a cooking party.
@@arlenegarza4353 yes!
Living in AZ, and having an orange tree in your yard, means I can squeeze fresh orange juicer to freeze. Another advantage of frozen orange juice, it helps to fill the freeze. I full freezer will stay colder longer if there is an outage, and you can pull a bottle out and have fresh orange juice.
Listening to you while I hang up my laundry to dry. I live in a small city, but I am trying to walk the walk as best as I can until we can get an acreage. My garden is twice the size as last year and things are looking good! Thanks for all the information!
Good for you!!👍🍾
Just watched a video hardest about utilizing freezing your harvest until you can preserve it. I heard it was a tip that sounded like common sense of your harvest is bigger then you can do all yourself in time. Just thought it might be helpful that you know you can freeze until you process in anywhere way you choose.
Keep at it! I also have my own little homestead in town.
Ditto ✌❤ Just added one of those old school 4 sided clotheslines to the mini-citi compound. Presently have a diy Berkey project sitting on the dining room table too💧
@@kitkatattack how many people in your town? We have about 30,000. Glad you have your eyes open and are taking steps.
You both have a great channel!! Kee up the great job!
Love you all even if I don’t know you! I am a brother in Christ! Got saved April 27, 1986. Lawton Oklahoma while serving in the US Army!!!❤🙏
My husband and I just purchased 27 acres in eastern Oklahoma. We have been dreaming about this lifestyle for years. I’m so glad I found y’all’s videos!!
Such good tips. We had an ice box growing up and still call the refrigerator an ice box lol.
We had an old box freezer, last year we dug a hole & insulated around the sides to make if fit better, but buried it in a shaded area on our property. We painted the top green & added moss to it to camouflage it.
So true!! I'm almost 62 and I've been watching Videos, reading, researching, writing down instructions, recipes etc for Canning, gardening and making all natural medicinal concoctions.. along with planting my garden and many other things.. there is so much good information out there.. find a Few that you like and Trust and Get Busy People!! Be Blessed!! Thanks Stacy!
(Michelle here) Love your off grid systems and info. Long time subscriber and fan. Amazing pantry. We solved this grid down problem with a solar powered generator for our mini freezer to plug into. These generators are quiet and you can put it indoors. It’s called a nature generator and it was one of the only ones that was strong enough for a freezer. We’re thinking we’d eat what we can’t fit into the freezer. Thank you for Quality content every time. 😀
Which brand❤
like to know more about solar generator? the ones I found were scams, when sounds to good to be true it is
Sooo much good information packed into this video. I watched it twice to make sure I got it all.
Thank you Stacy. You care so very much and it shows. Both you and Doug are trying to get everyone out here to WAKE UP.
God bless you both. Take care.
Oh we are awake. Otherwise she wouldn't do these videos.
@@pinkpigletparker8703 only some of us are awake.
I lived in a small apartment in London for two years. I had a tiny refrigerator with no freezer so I got in the habit of food shopping almost every day. In winter I often put things outside on the wide windowsills. It worked fine for me.
Great information Stacy 👍🏼👍🏼🇺🇸 My grandfather used to deliver ice in San Francisco when he was a kid climbing up stairs with a block of nice in his big hook. I’ve got the hook he used...amazing man he was. God bless you both for all the wonderful information in this new age of technology life many take for advantage daily...but not intentionally. 🌻🌞
I was trying to find some ideas for cold storage, so this is perfect timing! I started fermenting again and my house is too small to have a cold storage place and also keep my air conditioner off for longer periods. I don’t have much money, but I think I might be able to do the trash can in the ground idea! THANKS SO MUCH, STACY! 😘
Hello how are you doing?
Check absorption refrigerators , propane, convert to biogas preferably, kerosene ( hard to find), and for small things and cheeses make a layered wool refrigerator for each family member at least.
Here's a tip you can also make a 3 or 5 layered wool possibly with the sheep's oil to make a small portable refrigerator. Food can stay anywhere from 40-50 degrees or so even in the hot summer months hot will have to mist/spray it with water a few times a day in the hot summer months since it essentially works as an evaporative cooler/swamp cooler.
To see how it looks like watch 123Homefree on TH-cam he had a few videos where you can see it but he has a documentary with kristen dirksen i think called guerilla grazing where he shows it and talks about it and he keeps his cheese that he makes and other stuff there cool enough all year long. He is the one who made it. He has also really good ideas for self sufficiency on the move.
Hun you can take water bottles and line the bottom of the freezers with water bottles that is frozen if the electric goes out those bottles will keep the freezer colder longer I lived with a freezer that you would put an ice block in always have ice it's better if it's a bigger chunk than smaller it takes longer to unthaw and if you can try to get a dehydrator dehydrate anything and everything there's places under your bed or things that you don't need in your house really to store this food and if anybody tries to tell you that you cannot can meet they are wrong what do you think the Amish the people the way you will be living and heaven lives they don't use electric they can m e a t how do you think those people long time ago lived they can't meet you can dehydrate things in the summertime in the Sun
I use the outside in the winter as well to keep food cool. When it gets cold I will put food in a cooler on our balcony 🙂 It works really well at Christmas time when I'm doing my Christmas baking and and prepping and need additional storage.
I do the same, but in the summer time in the desert, heat is a real problem. Like you, my Christmas baking. Red velvet cake with creme frosting.
During cold weather, we always keep drinks on the front porch. With a large family, why waste refrigerator space?
I do the same on our screen porch. It’s a nice holding area if the fridge is too packed
I use an outdoor cooler for extras of stuff I buy in bulk, like juice etc, I freeze half gallons of milk then set them out in the cooler (in the shade and it helps cool the space while it defrosts
I use our garage at times. Do to it's construction type it seems to never freeze and stays cool into warmer weather. Many times my windows fog up on the car because it is cooler in the garage than outside.
I have 2 3.5 cubic ft freezers. I can power them on a Jackery 1000, while charging a second one using the two portable solar panels. I want to protect my grassfed/ grassfinished meats!
Can you do some vids on salt curing meat? Love your vids, have helped me a lot on my homestead.
@Dr.B you should check out The Townsends on YT. They have lots of 1800s food preservation and cooking. Here's a video about Salt Pork.
th-cam.com/video/vg4OIFd5-aA/w-d-xo.html
We (Kentucky) had hurricane winds come through back in 08 and knocked folks power out for days. Folks lost lots of food. It got up to 110 heat index yesterday!
Was super Hot here in NE Alabama on Lookout Mtn too. Its never been hot here at night like it was, it never cooled down at all last night, probably won't tonight either. This is Definitely not normal or natural and it happened like a light switch went on. Everyday it had been normal and in the mid 80s, then all of a sudden sun comes up, gets gotter than blazes then temp never drop like it should.
This definately geoengineered weather control. In fact the entire US is being6yy weather controlled. They've been speaking silver iodide above natural clouds for generations to make rain but refuse to make rain in California and out west and let it all burn. They must really think we're all stupid.
I keep wondering when the masses will wake up to this and stop pretending everything is normal.
If everyone started getting angry, talking about it and went after the gov calling them out on all these rigged things, these things would have to change. But instead people ignore it. Unbelievable to me.
There's a lot more ants than grasshoppers but the ants need to realize they have a lot of power. Until then, things get continue to get worse and worse with everyone suffering.
@@DonnaRatliff1 yes, I keep saying my poor kids will never know what a real pretty blue sky is. just this mess of chem blue.
@@DonnaRatliff1 sounds like they are manipulating with HAARP again
Great content. I'm Canadian but it's interesting to learn what's going on over the pond.... Thanks for keeping us in the know.
This is such a great reminder to keep things simple! We're so accustomed to our creature comforts that it's easy to overcomplicate everything!
I don't worry, I've been freeze drying most of what's in my freezer so I don't get caught. I ferment more & more, thanks Stacey 🤗
We have a freeze dryer and need to use it more.
I wanted to buy a freeze dryer but it is so expensive. Around $1,500. Or are there cheeper ones out there somewhere?
Hello from Mexico dear Stacy, I truly appreciate your priceless help, Doug's as well, I'm all eyes and ears here! :)
I admire you and your husband. I have thought about living off grid but today in North Georgia, the heat index is 113.
Same here in Nashville area too! Lots of cold drinks are in order for today and the next two weeks.
Same in east Tx
Check out "Deep South Homestead." They are in the South somewhere.
@@sunnyseacat9232 I love Deep South! I watch them daily. I love Danny and Wanda.
my husband worked on the farm of PSU which was founded as an agricultural school. He was offered a job by a major ketchup manufacturer to grow tomatoes. The farm had a house which was built in the late 1700s it had a fireplace in every room but what I found most amazing was the basement had a small stream that ran on the one side of the basement. He didn't take the job so I do not know how they kept it from flooding. It was contained by a small stone wall..
Yes, I drove past an old farm house with a stream running underneath and a windmill near the house. Fascinating: natural cooperation with nature.
Here is my contribution: Rat proof dry storage - 1 large silver metal street garbage can with lid (like Oscar the grouch); Super large thick mil 55gal black trash contractor bags. Place the new trash can down into one of the contractor trash bags and tuck top over to inside; get another bag and place it down into the can and tuck top over the outside of the top of can. Place your rice, crackers, and anything you don't want mice/rats moisture to get to inside and push lid down so that it makes best seal possible. Repeat as many times as you have room for in your cool garage or storage area. Done and done.
Is there any way to store that type food or even can foods in a hot ( Florida summer) storage shed?
The Cub Scout model was be prepared!🇺🇸🐻
We are going to order a solar generator. We just had a blip in our electricity today; no storms or anything that would cause it. When it happened my husband and I just looked at each other, like, oh oh, here we go. I am actually cutting back on things in the freezer. We believe the blackouts will be real and we want to be more prepared. Your videos give me great ideas (like sprouting seeds).
Which generator brand will you be purchasing?
@@gracelayne3739 We are thinking Ecoflo delta pro. Not for the whole house, mostly for freezer and fridge (emergencies). We have a gas generator that we only used 3xs in about 18 years. you can also charge the solar generator with the gas one if the sun isn't shining, which here is a lot of the time.
@@paketotoja5 Hello Pam how are you doing today
Great video. My grandparents used a ice box frig. They had a creek that ran through their back yard that we would put items into the creek to keep cool. They did the gardening, and did the FOD. .
In the last 2 months I have canned about 350 pounds of meat. On days that I didn’t have meat to can I canned beans for chili and soups. I am right now waiting on jars I ordered so I can get my big freezer canned. When they are warning us about blackouts we need to be listening. Hopefully things will straighten out soon but I would rather be prepared for it than have to scramble.
My family just moved off-grid two weeks ago and I just wanted to Thank you y'all's videos have helped out a lot!
This has by far been your best video. Great information. Thank you so much. 👍
❤I love the earring as a replacement button! What a creative idea! Thank you for all you teach us on your homestead!! ❤
This really brought back a lot of childhood memories when we would go to the ice house real early on Saturday mornings because on Sundays everything was closed!
American fridges are crazy. You could live in there. Most UK peeps have way smaller fridges. I’ve started building up a stock of dehydrated goods that I did in the Ninja. I can forage in my garden as I’ve encouraged the wild plants as well as cultivated. Land here is way too expensive for the majority of people. I have a local spring where I get water, or my friend who has a bore hole. I’ve been planning a long time although I don’t think it will come to chaos. The ascension process is more ordered than chaotic.
Thanks so much for teaching this stuff your right it’s common sense however we have been spoiled by technology and such
Thank you for sharing!!! Stacy , you and Doug have been so much help!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I've lived without a refrigerator for about 4 years
I'm SO glad I watched this vid, thank you for making it! I have a 7-cu-ft deep freezer and had never thought of freezing water in a 5-gallon bucket (vs gallon jugs of water) - that is a stellar idea!!!
Hello Sherilyn how are you doing
Kudos to you!! I watch so many channels that are in panic mode and urging us to be prepared because prices are rising, which we already know. But not too many give us methods and recipes on how to prepare and use what we prepare. You have such good ideas on keeping our food stock safe. I was raised without power or running water so I know a lot but still can learn more. We did have a propane fridge and it was indoors and the tank was outside the kitchen. Mom canned a lot and we had a huge root cellar. But now not too many people know how to do those things or even how to get a lot of free foods. You are doing such a good job of teaching those things!! Keep up the good work!
Ditto on this comment! If only other channels went into detail about this very topic. I wonder what they'll be doing with their freezers full of food.
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I love all the things you teach. You have a gift. Thank you and God Bless.
Oh thank you.. we lost our power a couple weeks ago due to a deliberate shut off in our neighborhood. It was over a 100 for those days. Lots of my neighbors lost all of their food. I did not but it had me thinking. When I clicked on your video I was hoping you were going to mention digging a hole because that's where I had been going. I think an outdoor root cellar is right up my alley. I love the water idea and chest freezer as well. Thanks again.
Here in NZ most houses up till the 1950's were built with what we call a 'safe', which was a cupboard in the kitchen that had an opening to the outside with fine wire mesh to stop insects etc. As most houses were built so that the kitchens were on the cool side of the house and food kept cold. I am lucky my house built in the early 50's still has it safe.
Oh I remember this well myself very well . Now im in Australia we don't see these in the older homes
In the US, we had the food "safe" fashioned as a piece of furniture. Most call them "pie safe" and looked like a shortened cupboard with 2 front doors that were screened with wire mesh. Some of these safes were made with the doors of solid wood with small air holes towards the top.
I have a "safe" or cold box in my San Francisco apartment...very old building. Didn't realize smaller box was where ice should go.
If grid is down and it is hot outside it seems that an earth pit/root cellar or running creek water might be best option for cool food storage. Convenient stores and grocery stores aren't going to have ice, either. Another option that we do is small LiFePO4 solar generators. We are able to cycle our freezer and refrigerator for one hour every two hours for most of a day before recharging with solar and the appliances can hold reasonable temps overnight (so we don't have to baby sit the generator). Thank you for your wonderful videos.
Check absorption refrigerators , propane, convert to biogas preferably, kerosene ( hard to find), and for small things and cheeses make a layered wool refrigerator for each family member at least.
Here's a tip you can also make a 3 or 5 layered wool possibly with the sheep's oil to make a small portable refrigerator. Food can stay anywhere from 40-50 degrees or so even in the hot summer months hot will have to mist/spray it with water a few times a day in the hot summer months since it essentially works as an evaporative cooler/swamp cooler.
To see how it looks like watch 123Homefree on TH-cam he had a few videos where you can see it but he has a documentary with kristen dirksen i think called guerilla grazing where he shows it and talks about it and he keeps his cheese that he makes and other stuff there cool enough all year long. He is the one who made it. He has also really good ideas for self sufficiency on the move.
@@andreamoscoso4065 This sounds very interesting. We have a group of women where I live who spin wool with the old time spinning wheels. They set up at the Fort during certain events there and spin the wool. I love to watch them.
I also subscribe to Kirsten Dirksens videos. I love all of them.
I'm going to look up the one you suggested here as well.🙂
Working on this very subject now....
Love the antique ice box. And your experimenting through the years how to really live way back when.
So helpful, Stacy! Thank you! Would be amazing to see actual temperature readings, perhaps averaged per season, for the “mini root cellar” and full, walk-in root cellar, especially alongside corresponding ambient air temps.
Thanks Stacy! Much appreciated. Some people keep jugs of frozen water in their freezer, which keep things cold when power is lost, or can be borrowed to place in a cooler, etc. When I was very young in the country, there was a little bridge built across the creek, with some cupboards on top with chicken wire at the bottom. My stepmom would place a case of canned milk in there in mid-summer and I noticed it was so cold that things froze. However, another place we lived had a shed over the little river, and a big overnight storm swelled the water and washed away all our buckets and canners.
I have seen videos by a man who helps communities to recreate plant growth even in deserts by harnessing any seasonal water and using mulch to reduce evaporation, and it is amazing how quickly they can start harvesting food and reclaiming the land, even to where little mushrooms grow in the mulch! We have had some years of drought also here on the prairies in Canada (not this year) so I am thinking of ways to change our gardening. I am not getting any younger so this might be the year to put in raised beds, etc.
Very very helpful to everyone. We all need to be living this way. I feel like there would be less stress,and worry. That thing in the back of my mind always saying, "What if the electric goes out?," would no longer be there. It's a lot of work,but so so worth every bit. For the freedom of our time and lives in general!
Very awesome that yall do live off grid. Thank you for all your info. On keeping food cool.
I absolutely love this series that you guys have been doing! It’s so sad that we’ve lost this knowledge. These are scary times that we are living in, and your videos are so empowering. It’s a nice reminder that if we are prepared, we don’t have to be afraid.
Many libraries get rid of their older books, magazines, so I’ve gotten plant identification books, books on roses, you name it, plus the free garden magazines are awesome for great tips..
All of the upright freezers I saw and used in the USA just had shelves and like you say all the cold air escapes almost instantly. When I came to Australia, I found that most of the upright freezers here have big drawers with solid fronts that do a really good job of keeping the cold air in, even if you have a drawer open. I don't know why I never noticed any like that in the States or if it's just a new thing and they have them there now. The drawback to the drawers is that you can't put as large of items in there and it does leave a bit less total usable space, but I haven't found that to be a significant problem.
I personally think this is ☝️ of yalls best videos!
Thank you both
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This is great information. Thak you for your wonderful channel. I remember when the Iceman came to our neighborhood selling ice for our icebox. Also the farmer with his horse and wagon selling vegetables and seasonal fruits. The ladies would come and collect the horses poo for their gardens in the back yards. And all this was in Brooklyn NY. For me that was a wonderful time.
Long time subscriber here, loving this series. I have learned so much from you over the last 5 years but right now this is what we need. Thank You
Our AC went out this past Sunday night. Had a rough night!!! It was 80 inside.
Had to go all day Monday in 100 degrees….went and bought a few window units because we just couldn’t make it! Now we are 995 in the hole again. Got the AC fixed today (Tuesday) (we have a very good neighbor) but we know we can’t make it without AC. We have planned to have AC and a fridge on the geni. And we have plans to also use an inverter and batteries too. We will find some way to at least have AC and a fridge. (Freezer). The rest I don’t care too much. I can cook on a fire. A grill a chiminea….sterno on a camp stove.
Yeah now people will be dying from climate change not covid anymore
These videos are so informative! I enjoy listening to your videos! Such a wise women full of so much knowledge! Truly an inspiration
The Natural Man , has The God given right to feed himself and his family, just like a deer or any other wild living creature.... Thank you blessings and May The Most HIght Bless you and keep the info coming , waking up the sleepers...
I'm really enjoying this series; I've been pondering these topics for a while now. Personally, I would love to live off grid like you do but my husband loves his creature comforts too much.
I can relate to your comment. ☺
I been thinking more on going off grid, but having cancer I have to stay close to my oncologist, but I’m hoping to get a clear bill on my next pet scan..
Thank you Stacy, you have shared great information. All the best!
Holy cow! As a kid I was around an icebox in CT which we used as the bread cupboard... Nice to know how it was actually intended to be used!
Unfortunately, so many of our lakes are “stocked” each year, so they will be fished out pretty quick in SHTF scenario.
Love your channel!!!
Get what you can when you can when the water is open and ice fish out there alone when it freezes over. When it gets cold only the most desperate will be out there. Fish tastes better in cold water anyway.
Great content. You guys are one of my favorite channels. Down to earth and great information every time!
Thank you Stacy. Great information. I have some big coolers thank goodness. Take care,
Hello Donna how are you
I love this!! I remember all these things from my childhood. We did not have stable electricity so Mom never trusted it for anything. We used ice, or the well in the summer time and just put it outside in the snow in the winter when the electricity went on the fritz. Some things were kept on the outside of the wide windowsill during the winter like eggs, milk and butter because that made them quick to access as needed. Never got a food borne illness as a child because we didn't have consistent electricity to keep things cold. I use a cooler with dry ice when needed.
I can remember my great grandma’s spring house. She kept butter & other things that needed cooling there. There are so many forgotten tidbits, thanks for jogging our memories.
Thank you so much Stacy!! I am learning a lot with you and you husband Doug. Thank you guys
I've watched from the beginning, even before I had an account. Several years ago I subscribed and have been impressed by your teaching abilities and wisdom.
This video has struck me to the core, because I have wanted a root cellar for years. I think I may be digging by hand, but I will have a proper root cellar. Every day a bit at a time.
My oldies used to use the creek for a beer fridge to chill the bottles rather than risk defrosting the kero fridge by opening it during the day. In older days it was not uncommon for a big cookpot to be covered overnight and heated for the next meal. So long as the lid was not disturbed and the pot had been allowed to keep on simmering after serves were ladled out, there remained nothing pathogenic in the stew to spoil it or make the consumer ill. An extension of that principle was the sevenday stew into which new veg and meat was added to a constantly simmering cookpot.
During a hurricane I always cover the inside top with bags of ice. It helps keep my food frozen longer when the power goes out
Thank you for some vital information. We live in SE Missouri. An earthquake is a real possibility, not to mention a grid outage. All the things you talk about is great knowledge to have at your fingertips. God bless and keep posting!
Another information Packed video that I return to again and again !! Thank - You from CT !!!
Just a note on propane fridges, it is possible to have them indoors. The Amish in northern Indiana (Elkhart & Kosciusko counties) have full size propane fridges in their homes. There is a special vent in the wall behind the fridge that draws any fumes away.
Having lost all my food to hurricane damage several times, I have learned to not keep alot in the freezer during cane season. Cans and dehydrated foods are my go to. Can't afford a generator in a small apartment or that would be my priority.
Also, can't have a generator indoors, because of toxic fumes...in big storms here, when the power was off statewide for many days,a few years ago, a young guy died because he didn't realise ...☹
They have the solar "generaters" now. A handy person could actually build one with off the shelf parts. Those generators charge a battery with sunshine and you just keep it in a sunny place outside or a south facing window. Plug any 120 volt item in and run it till the battery drains down. I imagine you could also charge it with grid power. It would charge faster that way. I have used a AGM battery and inverter to run table lamps in a power outage. Could charge a cell phone or any other small power draw item.
@@danielturner9832 wow, that's so good! I'll have to look into it down here in Australia. I know we have solar panel rigs for camping, but a generator sounds even better. Thanks for that. 🙂
The other day, I made my very first canned product, pickled eggs. I’ve never had pickled eggs before and probably should have started with a jam but my chickens have laid a lot and my dad only eats store bought eggs 🙄 so I decided to try picking some to get them out of the fridge lol. I hope they turn out okay
All the best with your pickle eggs…
And your dad, well - he be crazy!!!🥸 😆
Fresh free eggs. Yum 😋
@@delleon1172 🤣....but in all seriousness, I am a cancer survivor. When I was having chemo there were a lot of days I just didn't have an appetite but I knew I HAD to eat. Luckily I was living up in Missouri and a lot of people had farm fresh eggs for sale. I ate them frequently and I tell anyone I know that is going through treatment to eat farm fresh eggs as well. I really feel like they helped keep me healthy during that time. 🐔🐓😊
Awe, the icebox video was rhe first video of yours I saw. Still learning so much from you guys years later.
You can get a solar cooler too. Keeps food cold or hot. 4 Patriots has them. Has a USB charger for your cell charging etc.
Hello Vivian how are you doing today?
Hi Stacey. I got nine new herbal remedy plants today including: valerian, soapwort, fat hen, chicory, and lemon grass. I went foraging for lime tree flowers, and I'm dehydrating beetroot in my oven.
I am planning on living off grid in future! I am nervous don’t know how we going to do it, but I believe it is important to do that! Too bad I am in Canada not America!
Begin by using as little grid power as possible with non electric items. Cook outside on a fire. Keep lights off and use the sun or oil lamps. Change other habits to save energy. Before going off grid the first thing you do is reduce power requirements then size your solar and wind to fit your needs. I hope to do solar this year. We heat mostly with wood and have a LP stove to cook on so that is a start.
@@danielturner9832 thanks for your advice!
May Jesus bless you for all your willingness to help. Thank you both for all the help.
I'm always learning something when I watch you guys
Good afternoon Stacy 😉❤️ from Tennessee
Thank you very much for everything you do for us ❤️ also 💜 we can't forgot Doug..Love you guys 💝
Absolutely love you alls passion for what you do! We’re like you 2, on fire with this stuf! 😍
We are building a root cellar 20x20x8 tall, with a constant 55 degrees. Solar can run your deep freezers. I love seeing others doing the same.
My grandparents and their parents before them lived off the land in a house without electricity and plumbing. They knew how to save and preserve food using old, simple proven methods.
Loving your living style so near to nature and healthy which I can only dream of. Needs a lot of courage.
The villagers here in Pakistan where there's no electricity,they use earthen pots to store and keep fresh the veggies,butter and other foods for three to four days or more. The large earthen pots with earthen covers are kept wet from outside so things inside remain cool.
I really appreciate all of the videos with loads of great information!! God bless you and your family ❤️
Stacy this is what all people should know cause of what is going on in the world!!! I am sent but my children thought I was crazy about what I bought and I was right about what I got for myself !!!
Hi Linda how are you doing today?
Hello. Thank you so much for making these vids. I think about what and how if the grid goes down and your so easy to understand and so right. This is the summer to begin learning!
Hello Janice how are you doing?
Thank you sooo much! In Florida! Trying to figure out how to store fermented food. I have been practicing no electric, Gish it’s going to be hot! I worry about my chickens . Ok thinking on doing the big cooler, Ughhhh I don’t know yet. But thank You!!!!!!!
Idea for you. Put some water in a flat pan or something similar for the chickens to walk in. They will love it! Also, put up a couple of misters. And, if you do have electricity, put a fan behind the misters that will blow it on the chickens. We live in Phoenix and did this for a few years when it would get really hot. Your chickens may stop laying if it gets too hot. Keep them cool!
Ideas:
1) muddy area for chickens an option? Dig a subsurface area for them to sit in.
2) Fans, fans, fan - solar powered.
Got fans on them and tried the water mist they didn’t like! lol so I spray the grass we have now with the coolest water from hose. They dust bath I wet sand / drys a little and I think cooler sand helps 🤷♀️. Thank You for reply!