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.