Do you know anybody doing this?
Lots of people are doing it, but not enough, I fear.
I have abt 20 of the 18 Gal Rubbermaid storage containers chuck full of rice, beans, dried potatoes, gravy mix, dried fruit, hell, you name it.
And that’s not counting the canned goods...
Yep. Sure do.
When I was a kid we did this every year. Spent the whole summer growing, canning, freezing, cutting wood, and in fall butchering, hunting, and filling the root cellar. We also sold some crops and bought cloth, toiletries, and most necessities to last past winter until spring. Then, we’d start all over again. We also had a deep well, cistern and outhouse.
To this day it makes me nervous not to have 200 quarts of tomatoes, beans, and sundry jellies and jams in the basement by October 1st.