Have More In Winter, Too!
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Obviously, cold storage is such an easy way to conserve
food that it is probably the first method you will want to
take advantage of.
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Hub of The Homestead THE FREEZER
If you could take a peek in our freezer today, or any day,
you would see an amazing, wonderful assortment of delicious
foods. For on our miniature farm, nearly all activities
lead to the freezer. Into it goes almost any thing and
everything we can raise, plus items we buy. And the food
comes out fresh whenever we want it - summer or winter. No
other method of preserving food has ever made such a happy
situation possible.
From the standpoint of abundance, we have eaten better on
our homestead than we ever have before - and that includes
the war years of scarcity and rationing. The chicken we
take out of our freezer is tender, delicious. Yes, we have
corn-on-the-cob and lush raspberries in January, and
goodtasting greens as well as lots of other things from our
past year's garden . . . and it tastes as good as it did
fresh out of the garden.
Ed and I both believe the quick-freezer is one answer to
man's long search for a way to harness the bounty of
nature. At any rate, we know it's a way ordinary people
like us can have more security and independence than we
ever thought possible.
The freezer was one of the first big capital investments we
made and after using it, it would still be the first if we
were starting over again. Ed loves to say that if you want
to get your wife interested in homesteading, just get her a
freezer. I must admit it helped intrigue me with country
living and now I'm glad it did, for I would never go back
to the city.
A freezing cabinet cuts your cost of living and at the same
time raises your standard of living. Even if you did not
raise any of your own food you could buy fresh vegetables,
fruits or meat in quantities at wholesale or seasonal
prices and store them away. The cabinet should eventually
pay for itself from your savings in such buying. It costs
very little to run a freezer - about the same as an
electric refrigerator.
Of course, if you raise your own food the savings are even
greater. If you hunt or fish, you can put away some of your
favorite wild duck or fresh trout for the time you couldn't
otherwise enjoy such delicacies. Or you can even make some
good trades with your friends - we have swapped some of our
home grown fowl and meat for such tasty things as newly dug
clams, fresh fish and that rare treat, venison.
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