Everyone loves Ms. Homestead Lady-a true homesteader of these mountains for well over 30 years. She and her family have more than proven how to homestead and how to fully live Off Grid. She has such great wisdom in everything for everyone, but understands how to transition and the struggle at times to jump start a successful homestead. Here is just one quick tip from her-but an important one-in order to jump start YOUR efficiency plan no matter where you are. Stay tuned… LOTS more to come from her! Enjoy and thanks for watching! xo
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youre amazing#!!!! my absolute favorite no nonsense real truth and yet real love for all of us out here. kinda wish there was a bit mor einfo on where to store in terms of temp and heat and cold. when it think food storage i always think you need a cellar or some place thats consistently a certain temp so food keeps….major concern for me.
LOVE this start up tip!!
just so ya'll know my husband and I found food grade buckets at tractor supply for less money than the ones at home depot! so if you can't find a free source you can save a little money this way.
if you live by a mercado (hispanic supermarket), they have FANTASTIC prices on beans, rice & spices!
@appalachai'shomestead so can the beans stay in the buckets longer than a year?
great video!
Great video very interesting..
Thank you for taking the time! This Miss Homestead series is exactly what I'm looking for!
Patara when you start your food storge bucket and you fill it say half full but then you get more beans etc. can you just add the new beans with the ones you have already stored or do you start a new bucket.
I loved this so much. Thank you! More! MORE! 🙂 XOXOXOXO
Wal-Mart sells buckets under $5 in my area. A bulk bag of flour/Beans/Rice/Sugar is so much cheaper by the lb
moisture is a BIG issue in my holler in the hills, food storage has always been difficult
thank you
After you take them out of the freezer do the bags have moisture in them? Do you let them dry out first? ?
Thank you so much! I learned a few more tricks as well as the reminder to start small and get started with canning which I havent done in a long while. I really appreciate your sharing the wisdom!
thank you for sharing
Another method is to place 1/4 oz. to 3/4 oz. of dry ice at the bottom of the five gallon food grade bucket, (depending on the granular size of the item being stored; i.e. how much empty space there is to fill between the product; beans equals more, sugar equals less), before filling the bucket and place the lid on loosely to allow "burping" of the gas, (C02), before sealing the lid on tight for long-term storage. The burping process may take twenty minutes or so depending on how well the dry ice portion was calibrated.
This method displaces oxygen in the storage container which precludes oxidation of the product stored and inhibits life forms from hatching, and surviving, to ruin the stored product. (The idea of first freezing the product for a week or ten days as mentioned in the video will also be benefitial to this method of long term storage). There have been reports of food being stored in this way of lasting twenty years or more.
awesome video you did very good 🙂 makes so much sense 🙂 thank you and Ms. Homestead Lady 🙂
Have a question for you, or anyone really, Can you just line a regular bucket or use food storage bags inside a regular bucket?
Bay leafs work fantastic. When I store anything dry and in plastic or paper bag. I used to have a problem with bugs in that cupboard I keep bayleaves on the floor of my cupboard. Where I store these even buckets. Thank you great info here.
Bay leaves helped my to rid my kitchen cupboards of weavels and tiny moths.
Aloha Patara, I think I will have to start a new file for 'Ms. Homestead Lady'. I really like your time with her. Aloha Kim
YES! thank you!
I got three free buckets from a grocery store bakery yesterday. One of them originally held garlic spread and after scrubbing with soap and a wash in the dishwasher a faint garlic smell is still there. The other two were icing and i haven’t washed them yet, but plastic likes to absorb things so beware
☺I've had beans stored in a large Tupper ware container for close to 20 yrs, with bayleaf in it. And I've never had bugs or issues with using them.
Yeah, there can be a few more that I have to toss out in the cleaning process but otherwise they're fine.
WHY keep them 20 yrs? You ask. Because the container was shifted to back of storage area and forgotten until rediscovered recently.
I researched viability of storing them that long and found not many negative comments etc
Thank you!!!!
Thank you
Can't believe this was 5 years ago. Girl friend hasn't aged a day!