How did my root cellar work 1st full winter?

This was the first full winter storing potatoes and carrots in my off grid root cellar.
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[marianfrances]

Wow! My father would have bragged about your building, food production and storage! He was born in 1898 snd this is how they lived. Please take that as a serious compliment! 👍😎🇨🇦✌🐾🎖

[asciiavatar]

Keeping some potatoes around as a backup/emergency crop is a good idea in the event that the other harvests are lean.

[wu]

Your survival talents and energy is truly amazing. Some people truly love life in the real sense. Be nice to live forever without getting old.

[florentinalily]

Drying the potatoes are really worth while too. You can also make a flour from the potatoes for bread. and make a dried meal for the chickens to include flax oil (flax easy to grow)

[ruthkrentz]

Until your crops for the chickens are ready - look up Jones Organic layer feed. The chickens do really well with it.

Grow pumpkins! lol. The seeds are a natural dewormer for both chickens and humans

[paulward]

My family totally agrees with your new animal base diet. We have been regaining our health and repeated the benefits of a meat based diet. Benefits are countless.

[soliel]

We have a huge pasture area and have successfully raised chickens with no grain. They were leaner, but we had plenty of eggs and very low amount of bugs in the yard. We did use regular starter grower when we were brooding them though. I was just thinking that in nature, the birds don't get a big pile of grain handed to them every day, so I tried it and it worked. We do have 5 acres of pasture, though and I just let the chickens wander wherever they wanted. We had a good guard dog, so no trouble with them getting picked off. They always stayed relatively (an acre or two) close to the house anyway.

[mildredmorine]

My daughter started feeding her pup raw carrots to chew on he loved carrots. She also fed him some fruits. What a wonderful thing to have a root cellar. I would love to have one. I think that some people are going to go back to the old ways, it is understandable because we don’t know what we’re eating anymore when it’s bought. The prices are insane, outrageous prices. I make everything from scratch. Love your videos, your way of life, living your life. That’s what happiness is, being able to make choices, to choose how you want to live your life. Thanks for sharing, appreciate you.

[NetTopsey]

I suspect the local food banks might accept potatoes. Worth checking if you haven't yet.

[joelhenderson]

Shawn next time your this close to Oklahoma on your vacation in Texas you come up @here and stay at my place. I have RV hookups you can stay as long as your want and I'll show you native Oklahoma. I'd be glad for you to stay and welcome!

[jond]

Thanks. Lovely to hear that the store is doing what you built it do.

[conniewaite]

Place a few apples in with the potatoes, they have an offgass that helps keeps the potatoes lasting longer

[bobobrien]

My daughter started having a few chickens. They’re free range and food scraps. We get eggs from her. They have darker yolks, thicker shells and just taste better.

[marygordon]

Thanks so much Shawn because we’re learning a lot of things that we thought we knew! 👏👏👏🤩🤩🤩💯💯💯

[peterfardell]

I remember watching you building this cellar. I was well impressed mate

[piccachoooo]

Don't stop doing what you're doing. Ever.

[michaelboom]

I use a back unheated room for storing some stuff during the winter, seen it get down to 2-4c range which was great. Potatoes in insulated coolers just started sprouting.

[Dontbeasheep]

Mate I know of two friends, one eat anything he wanted (not fast food) but anything & everything & drank alcohol at weekend only, he is as fit as ever in his 60’s, I also know of a old friend who eat 100% clean & healthy never drank alcohol or smoked all his life & died of bowl cancer.

[susanableton]

When we had a house, we had a cold cellar which my then husband refused to "finish" the cellar (some people lay ceramic tile on floor) because he said it would make a difference to the temperature. As he also made wine (without any additives at all) I believe it caused some of our potatoes to get mouldy. We would pick and then store them over the winter. It was a problem though. So happy to hear they all did well.

[jbthor]

Shawn. I've eaten carrots that large size, and I enjoyed them. They're sweeter.