We plan to grow alot of ours as well. Here’s our five basic types of storage:
1. Dry storage - Beans, oilseeds, and grains primarily.
2. Processed - canned, dried.
3. Root cellar or ice box. Freezer if there’s electricity.
4. Overwintered - covered by straw or plastic if they can’t naturally survive subzero.
5. Perennials - come up every year. This includes wild foraging.
I read once, that the pioneers never died in the winter in the raging snowstorms like you see on TV. They died in the spring when the grass was green and the flowers blooming, March or April, because they were out of stores and nothing much was growing yet.
Plan for that.
You gotta learn what’s edible. For instance, dandelion leaves are as healthy as spinach. You cook it the same way and season it the way you want. Lots of wild growing things are good for you. Get a book and read up, because honestly, the way things are going, you just don’t know.
Game would be plentiful in the spring... squirrels, rabbits, fish, birds.... Pioneers would have trouble in the winter if their previous years crops didn’t come in or if varmints got into their stores.