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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: cayadopi AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Cool food storage
  • Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 12:32:07 -0700

Our farm was in mid-Wisconsin, Marquette County. The large, stone walled/dirt-floored basement was used as you describe you mom's, shelves burdened with jars of canned food, including meat before we had a freezer. The potatoes were piled in one corner and the carrots piled nearby. Very cool down there in spite of the wood-burning gravity furnace off to the side.

Anyone building a new house or adding a new room would do well to build a dirt-floor basement below.




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