One suggestion I have. If you freeze, think about going with vacuum sealer bags. My mother had me try some asparagus she froze with it. Pointing out that asparagus doesn't freeze well, the stuff she gave me tasted just short of fresh. That's how good it is.
One of my favorite books is The Encyclopedia of Country Living by Carla Emery.
Amazon has a good rundown on it: here.
Thank you for joining in, I will check the book out, as good ones are rare.
Before 9-11, there was a freezing group at Yahoo groups, some of them were attempting to make their own vaccum for sealing, by using the vaccum, with a big drinking straw, taped to the end of it, which was inserted into the package and pulled the air out.
Not perfect, but cheap and better than none.
I have the “Stocking up” book and several others, but one never has enough books.
As someone said, without electric, the internet and our computers are going to cease to exist.