Natural Storage Systems on Living without Refrigeration

It’s a problem that every society, from the dawn of humanity, has faced: How to save food for figurative rainy days — away from microbes, insects, and other critters eager to spoil it. Over the years, archaeologists have found evidence for a variety of techniques. Some, like drying and fermenting, remain common today. Others are bygone practices, such as burying butter in peat bogs. Though low-tech, the ancient ways were effective — clearly, as some of the products have survived millennia. 

Food storage expert Gary Growden is here to bring us some clever techniques that our great-great grandparents used to keep their food edible and nutritious in a world before the advent of electricity.  Find more on food storage at Natural Storage Systems.