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2 Great Food Storage Calculators
(Excel workbook, check all tabs)
Many thanks
to FoodStorageMadeEasy.net & ModernSurvivalOnline.com
!
Altitude & Water Boiling Points chart
Canning Basics – Hot Water Bath
Canning Tomatoes-Hot Water Bath Step-by-Step
Food - Dehydrated Freeze Dried to Fresh Equivalents and Rehydration Tables
U.S. Fruit & Vegetable In Season & Harvest Dates State by State
(Excel workbook, check all tabs)
List of Open Pollinated and Organic Seed Providers
(Excel workbook, check all tabs)
Shopping for Fresh & Seasonal Foods
Food Storage Mistakes – Yikes!
Food Storage - Starting & Maintaining - Quick Easy Economical How-to's
Food and Water Storage Considerations
Vinegar In All Its Wonder & Common Uses
Did You Know – History of Food Preservation
Master Grocery Shopping List & List of food dangers
Springtime and Gardening – Terms and Concerns
Spring is Just Around the Corner! Prepping Your Vegetable Garden
Waffle Garden - BioScape Fall 2008
Survival Seed Packages VS Saving Your Own Seeds
Grow Your Own Loofa (Luffa) for Sponges
Acetic Acid & Acetic Anhydride-Distilled Vinegar
2003 Edible Wild Plants Angier-Wild Food Trail Guide
A Guide to Raised Bed Gardening
A Practical Way of Measuring Soil Moisture
Alternative Pest and Weed Controls
Alternative Pest & Disease Controls
Alternative sources of Natural Rubber
Kunapajala – A Liquid Organic Manure of Antiquity
Backyard Composting
Diagnosing Common Backyard Composting Problems
Aquaponics Common Sense Guide
Backyard Aquaponics - Simplified Manual
Barrel-ponics
Daily Tasks For Aquaponics
Hydroponics for the Home Gardener
Basic Sprouting Guide
The Beginners Book Of Gardening
(1911)
Botany - Gleanings in Old Garden Literature
Growing Bread Yeast
Traditional Cheesemaking Manual
Making Homemade Cheese
Production of Coldframe Hardy Vegetables During Winter in OK
A Garden For All Seasons
Companion Planting Basic Concepts & Resources
Complete Guide to Home Canning Guide
Dining on the Wilds-Wild Edible and Poisonous Plants
2004
Growing In Straw Bale
Straw Bale Method No Dig Garden
The Science of Eating Healthy by McCann 1919
Reducing Radiation Poisoning from Fallout on Food
(Anti-Nuclear Nutrition-Background & Principles for Reducing Internal Radiation Dose After Nuclear contamination 1981)
Apples-Safe Methods to Store, Preserve and Enjoy
Basic Hard Cider Recipes
Basic-Butchering of Livestock & Game
Before Disaster Strikes - A Guide to Food Safety in the Home
Boy Scouts Beginners Guide to Dutch Oven Cooking
The Powhatan Boy Scouts Dutch Oven Cookbook
Brassica Cover Crops-Impacts on Plant Nutrition and Pest Management
Growing Bread Yeast
Bucket Drip Irrigation
EVALUATION
Bucket Drip Irrigation-Low Cost Family Systems
Bugs in Your Cupboards
Buy Local Food and Farm
Cake and Mix Recipes for High Altitudes
High Altitude Food Preparation
Campfire Cookery
(for soldiers, scouts, campers, hikers, hotels, restauranters, boarding houses, auto tourist (1921)
Canning Green Chile
Canning Meat Poultry and Game
Canning Meat, Wild Game, Poultry & Fish Safely
Canning Tomato Products
Canning Fruit Basics
Canning Vegetables Basics
Canning and How to Use Canned Foods
(1916)
Carob Rooting of Cuttings
Cheese Making Made Easy
Cheese Making
Choosing Organic Matter for the Home Garden
City Peoples Book of Raising Food
Clover Farming
The planting, cultivation, and expression of coconuts, kernels, cacao and edible vegetable oils and seeds of commerce
(A practical handbook for planters, financiers, scientists, and others (1919)
Production of Coldframe Hardy Veggies
Collapsible greenhouse-plans
(don't know where I got this and can't find a current link)
Collaspsable greenhouse-materials
(don't know where I got this and can't find a current link - this goes with the above plans)
Food Manufacturing, Processing and Storage Pest Control
Common Sense Gardens: How to plan and plant them
(1906)
Companion Planting Basic concepts & Resources
(Waffle Garden & 3 Sisters)
Companion Planting - Three Sisters Garden
(Monsoon Planting)
Complete Guide to Home Canning
Compost Troubleshooting Guide
Composting
Container Gardening
(University of West Virginia)
Container Gardening
(University of Iowa)
Container Gardening-ANR
Container Vegetable Gardening
Control of Duckweed and Watermeal
Replacing Table Sugar with Maple Sugar-Conversion
Cooking with Dry Milk
Cooking with Powdered Milk Conversions
Infinite Herbs and Specialties:
My Cooking Helper-Herb Ingredient Pairings
Coping With Deer in Suburban Gardens
Cottage Economy
(containing information relative to the brewing of beer (1833)
Cottage Farming or How to cultivate from 2 to 20 acres
(1870)
Cover Crops for Home Gardens
Cover Crops in Vegetable Gardening
Create Your Own Herbal Vinegars
Culinary Herbs-Their Cultivation, Harvesting, Curing and Uses
Cyclopedia of American Agriculture
(vol. II--Crops (1975)
Drip Irrigation for Home Gardens
Drip Irrigation-Watering the Home Garden
Drip Irrigation for Vegetables
Dry It You’ll Like It
(1974)
Controlling Stored-food Pests in the Home
Dry-Pack Food Storage Container Options Oxygen Absorbers & Other Treatment Methods
Drying Foods
Drying Fruits and Vegetables
Easy Does It HOLIDAY recipe collection
Easy Does It SPRING recipe collection
Guide to Spices & Herbs in the Kitchen
Edible And Useful Plants Of The West
(1962)
Guide to Setting up Your Own Edible Rooftop Garden
Edible Landscaping
Fact Sheet - Food Supplies
(RedCross)
Fact Sheet for Vinegar/Acetic Acid Recommendations
Fall and Winter Gardening in the Pacific Northwest
Farm and Garden Rule Book
(1911)
Fats, Oils and Fat Replacers
(search on "FATS, OILS AND FAT REPLACERS - Ohio State" when you select the link it will download the PowerPoint document (class.fst.ohio-state.edu/.../FATS,%20OILS%20AND%20FAT%20REPLA))
Fear of Fresh How to Avoid Foodborne Illness From Fruits and Vegetables
Ferol Forager #1-
A guide to living off nature's bounty in urban rural and wilderness areas
Fertilizers :
where the materials come from : where to get them in the cheapest form : how to compound formulas, etc.
(1886, c1885)
Flavored Vinegars
Food Additives Guide
Drying Herbs Seeds and Nuts
Preparing Fruits for Drying
Preparing Vegetables for Drying
Effects of Temperature on Food
Food for Baby's First Year
Food for the Toddler Years
Fresh-Caught Fish
Handling The Clean Kitchen Test
Holiday Meats—Not Just Turkey
Food Irradiation
Basics of Jelly Making
Jelly and Jams
Keeping Foods Safe at Home
Keeping Leftovers Safe
Pickle Basics
Pickling Cucumbers
Common Problems with Pickled and Fermented Foods
Dill Pickles and Sauerkraut
Pickling Peppers
Pickled Vegetables
Pickling Relishes
Understanding Food Preservation
(search on "Food Preservation cwu.edu" when you select the link it will download the PowerPoint document (www.cwu.edu/~bennettv/FCSN%20140/Food%20preservation.ppt))
Preserving Game Meats
Home Canning Equipment
Home Freezing Equipment
Selecting and Storing Cereals and Grains
Selecting and Storing Fruits and Vegetables
Food Selection and Storage
Food Spoilage and Principles of Food Preservation
Food Storage & Disaster Preparedness Calendar
Vacuum Packaging Foods at Home
Food Storage Recipes & Meal Planner
Kitchen Companion-Your Safe Food Handbook
Recipes and Tips for Healthy, Thrifty Meals
Forage Crops Other than Grasses
(1900)
Forage Sorghum
Forest Planting; a treatise on the care of timber lands and the restoration of denuded wood-lands on plains and mountains
(1893)
How to Plant a Tree
Tree Planting Guide
Freezer Storage Times
Freezing Basics
Freezing Fruit Basics
Freezing Fruits and Vegetables at Home
Freezing Green Chile
Freezing Meat Poultry and Game
Freezing Vegetables
Hoop House Construction 12 x 40
Garden Farming
(1913)
Gardening Encyclopedia With Special Herb Section
Gardening Without Irrigation-Dry Farming
Gardner's Secret Handbook
Garlic for the Home Garden
Garlic Vinegar
Get Smart As You Shop - Fruits & Veggies Matter
Glossary of Meat Production Terms & Methods
Good-living-A Practical Cookery-book for Town and Country
1890
Good-living-A Practical Cookery-book for Town and Country
1908
1 week food storage plan
Basic Food Storage Plan for 1 Year
5 Dollar a week Food Storage Plan
$10 a week Food storage
$20 a week food pantry plan
25 Amazing and Weird Facts About How Food Is Made
(enter your email address and receive free)
25 Amazing Facts About Food
Budget Tips
Learn 30 Ways in 30 Days to Stretch your Fruit and Vegetable Budget
Grape Culture and Wine Making
1888 by Husmann
Greenhouse Gardening
(Isreal)
Greenhouse Vegetable Production
Organic Greenhouse Vegetable Production
Greenhouses and Cold Frames
for Year-round Local Vegetable Production
Grow Sweet Sorghum
(for making molasses)
Grow Your Own Short Season Vegetable Garden
Growing Echinacea
Growing Container Vegetables
Growing Garlic in the Home Garden
Growing Grapes in the Home Garden
Growing Herbs for Home Use
Growing Sweet Corn in Home Gardens
Growing Vegetables – The Basics
Growing Vegetables from Seed
Growing Vegetables Organically
Growing Wild Yeast
(do a search on "Growing Wild Yeast old.edu" when you click on the link the file will download as "file" www.olc.edu/~lhenry/factseets/factsheets/file.pdf)
Making Your Own Wild Yeast 1849 Style
Growth and Maintenance of Yeast
(do a search on "Growth and Maintenance of Yeast" and the file will download as "9780896038325-c2" from www.springer.com/cda/content/.../cda.../9780896038325-c2.pdf?...0...?)
Growing Alfalfa for Hay
Growing, Curing & Manufacturing Tobacco
1886
Guide to Curing Tobacco
Potatoes, Planting & Growing Guide
Guide Selecting Preparing and Canning Vegetables & Vegetable Products
Guide to Spices and Herbs in the Kitchen
Guidelines for Cheeses:
Use of Dehydrated Cheeses
Hand-book of tree-planting;
or, Why to plant, where to plant, what to plant, how to plant (1884)
Handling and Cooking Game Animals
Harvesting and Saving Garden Seeds
Harvesting and Storing Fresh Garden Vegetables
List of Publications
Harvesting and Storing Fresh Garden Vegetables
(pdf)
Fishing for the Safest Seafood
Healthy Fish Choices
Grocery Store Pilot Project 2009
Ingredient Substitution Chart of Healthy Food Options
Herbs and Spices Substitutions
High Pressure Food Processing
High Altitude Cooking
Home Canned Fruit Pie Fillings
Home Canned Sweet Spreads Made with Green Chile
Home Made Brewers Yeast
Home Preservation of Fish
Home Composting-Bins
Building your Own Composting Bin
Home Made Energy Bars
How to Build a Low-cost Hoop House
How to Grow No-till Cotton
(This orginally came from the Mississippi Plant Materials Center. I can no longer find it online so here it is.)
No-Till Farming Is a Growing Practice
by the Economic Research Service
How to Grow Peanuts
How to Identify & Avoid GMO Ingredients, Antibiotics & More Shopping Guide
How to Make Olive Oil
How to make Syrah Vinegar
How to Make Vinegar
(Don't know where I got this from and can't find the link online)
How to Make Salt
How To Read a Seed Packet
(follow the link and select "Printer Friendly", then select PDF)
How to Build a Greenhouse From Used Windows or Storm Doors
(I'm almost positive this came from Mother Earth's News but cannot find an online link)
How to Make Basic Survival Foods
How To Make Liquor With Fruit And Berries
How to Make The Sunflower Seed Huller and Oil Press for Vegetable Oil
The Humanure Handbook
In a Pinch Food Yields
In a Pinch Ingredient Substitutions
Ingredient Substitutions Food Yields
Indoor Gardening Secrets
Intensive Gardening For Profit And Self-Sufficiency
Introducing Square Foot Gardening
Introduction to Drip Irrigation
Introduction to Gardening
-Getting Along with Your Garden
Irrigation and Drainage
(1913)
Irrigation for the Farm, Garden and Orchard
1893
Jams and Jellies Uncooked
Jams Jellies and other Fruit Spreads
Joy of Canning
Joy of Gardening
(must have a logon to download)
Keep Baby's Formula Safe
Making Baby Food
Kitchen Equivalent Measurements
Kiwi Growing Guide
Leaching Requirements of Pecan and Fruit Trees
Long Term Food Storage Free Guide
(enter your email address and receive the free guide)
Preparing an Emergency Food Supply, Long Term Food Storage
Low-till Veggie Garden
Make Jelly Jam and Spread at Home
Make Your Own Baking Powder
(do a search on "
MAKE YOUR OWN BAKING POWDER SurvivalRing.ORG
" ; select the link and the file will download)
Making a self watering container or Earthbox
Making Apple Cider
Making Cider Vinegar at Home
Making Homemade Cheese
Making Molasses
Making Blackstrap Molasses
(sweet sorghum)
Molasses vs Sorghum -
What's the Difference?
Making Wine for Home Use
Managing Alfalfa During Drought
NMSU (no longer available online as a PDF so here it is)
Managing Alfalfa in Low or No Water Availability Situations
Manual of Food Quality Control
- Radionuclides in Food
FAO 1994
Militia Cookbook
Modern High Farming
(A Treatise on Soils, Plants and Manures 1886)
Farming Terminology
(can no longer find online)
The Organic Way of Mulching
Muscadine Grapes Home Garden
Mushrooms
by Falconer 1901
Native Cook Book
(Don't know where I got this and can't find online so here it is)
New low risk farm guide-Drycroping
Nitrogen Fixing Tree Start up Guide
Eating Nutritiously When the Lights Are Out
(Emergency Food Pyramid, No Cook Emergency Meals)
Non GMO Shopping Guide
Nutritional Adequacy and Shelf Life of Food Storage
Market Gardening-A Startup Guide
Onions for the Home Garden
Organic Essentials Produce
Organic Farm Producers Guide
Organic Gardening--Natural Insecticides
NMSU (follow link, select the download icon on top left)
Organic Insect and Disease Management
(Don't where I got this 2007 report and can't find it online)
Organic Bramble Fruit Diseases
Organic Gardeners Composting
by Steve Solomon
Organic Insecticides-Effective and nontoxic products to zap pesky bugs
(don't know where I got this but you can read this 1994 article online)
Organic Tobacco Production
Organic Vegetable Gardening
Organizing & Operating an Efficient Emergency Food Pantry
Peaches Planting & Early Care
Pecans for the Home Garden
Peter Reinhart's Artisan Breads Every Day Pain-a l'Ancienne
(Must sign in to download)
How to know wild fruits;
a guide to plants when not in flower by means of fruit and leaf (1905)
Philmont Scout Ranch Country Cookbook
(Cimmeron, NM
)
Pickling-Making Fermented Dill Pickles
Plant, Grow and Cook With Herbs
Planting Olive Trees
Planting Trees and Sowing Sorghum
(Must login to download)
Bamboo, some uses and facts
(Do a search on "BAMBOO SOME USES AND FACTS SurvivalRing.ORG pdf", follow the link and the document will download www.survivalring.org/.../index.php?...%20BAMBOO-SOME%20USES%..)
Pocket Guide to Dairy Sanitation
Portion Size Guide
Practical Farming;
a treatise on present farming conditions and how to improve them (1907)
Practical Water Farming
1868
Preparing and Canning Pickled and Fermented Foods at Home
Preserving Beverages-
Water Juice, and Milk
Preserving Pie Fillings
Preserving Food-
Drying Fruits & Vegetables
Principal Stored Grain Insects
Processing Sweet Sorgum for Syrup
Processing Your Deer at Home
Produce Safety at the Farm Market-A Guide for Farmers and Sellers
Protect and Improve Your Soil with Cover Crops
Prudent Food Storage FAQ v4
Pruning Grapes to the Four-Arm
Kniffin System
Pruning Mature Pecan Trees
Transplanting Mature Pecan Trees
Training Young Pecan Trees
Pruning the Home Orchard
Raised Bed Gardening
Raising Vegetables in Mini Gardens
(in Alaska)
Raspberries for the Home Garden
Recipe Ingredient Substitution Chart
Reduced Tillage and Cover Cropping Systems for Organic Vegetable Production
(Do a search on "Reduced Tillage and Cover Cropping Systems for Organic Vegetable Production sare.ORG", select the link and it will download www.sare.org/.../Reduced%20tillage%20and%20cover%20crops.pdf)
Freezer Storage Times
The Rocky Mountain cook book:
for high altitude cooking
(c1918)
Row Cover Vegetable Production Techniques
Safe Home Food Storage
Salsa Recipes for Canning 1
Salsa Recipes for Canning 2
Using Chile-Making Ristras, Making Chile Sauce
Saving Vegetable Seeds
Saving Your Own Vegetable Seeds
Secrets Of Meat Curing
Seed Propagation of Plants
Small-Scale Organic Seed Production
Business skills for small-scale seed producers
Successful Community-Based Seed Production Strategies
Seed Saving Guide-
Stick a fork in it!
Basic Seed Saving
Seed Starting Chart
Selecting, Storing & Using Fresh Herbs
Self Reliant Agriculture for Drylands
(must login to download)
Small Space Gardening
A Kid's Guide to Gardening
Stockpiling Food for
Small Spaces and Small Budgets
Small Backyard Greenhouse
Small Unit Aquaponics for the Backyard
Small-scale, Sustainable Growing Practices-
EcoFarming AgroForestry for Self Reliance (in Russia)
Small Scale Food Drying Technologies
Smokehouse Plans
So Many Seeds, So Little Time
(Don't know where I got this and can't find it online so here it is)
So Many Gourds, So Little Time
Soil Analysis-
A Key to Soil Nutrient
Soiling crops and the silo
;
how to cultivate and harvest the crops; how to build and fill the silo; and how to use silage (1910)
Solar Food Dryer
(The Design, Construction, and Use of an Indirect, Through-Pass, Solar Food Dryer)
Sorghum Syrup
Spices and Herbs for the Home Garden
Spices and How To Know Them
(1910)
Sprouting 101-1001
Squanto's Garden
Starting Garden Transplants at Home
(FL)
Starting Garden Transplants at home
(IA)
Starting Plants Early Outdoors
Storage Guidelines For Fruits & Vegetables
Storage of Organic Fruits and Vegetables
Strawberries for the Home Garden
Storing Summer Squash
Squash Bug and Squash Vine Borer-Organic Controls
Superbugs Invade American Supermarkets-Tips to Avoid Superbugs in Meat
Superbugs Invade American Supermarkets
2013 Report
Survival Gardening With Heirlooms
Seafood Watch-Northeast Guide
Seafood Watch-Midwest/Central Guide
Seafood Watch-Southeast Guide
Seafood Watch-Southwest Guide
Seafood Watch-West Coast Guide
Seafood Watch-Hawaii Guide
Seafood Watch-Sushi Guide
Seafood Watch-National Guide
Sustainable Production of Wood and Non-wood Forest Products
Tables for blending milk and cream,
or different percents of cream; an aid to creamery and ice cream factory operators, milk dealers and condensers (1915)
The American Woman's Cook Book
1939
The Fall Vegetable Garden
The Forcing Fruit and Kitchen Gardener
by Nicol 1802
The Honest Food Guide
The Modern Practical Bread Baker
(I got this off Google Books years ago but can't seem to find the link now, nor is it on archive.org, so here ya go)
The Young Farmers Manual
1860
Toxins In Our Lives
(in our food)
Garbage Can Garden
Try Cooking On Top Of Your Heating Stove!
Try a "New" Old Variety in the Garden
Understanding the Composting Process
Shelf Stable Recipes
Useful Wild Plants Of The US And Canada
1926
Using Dry Milk
Powdered Milk Conversion Chart
(4 up)
Using Your Barbeque Grill or Oven to Smoke Food
(must login to download)
US Fruit and Vegetable Availability and Handling Charts
Utilizing Cover Crops in Vegetable Production Systems Fact Sheet
Vegetable Planting Chart Planting Depth and Spacing
(Vesey's)
Vegetable Planting or Transplanting Guide Planting Depth and Spacing
Vegetables Usual Planting and Harvesting Dates
2010 stats
Vermicomposting with Worms
Vermicomposting
Vertical Farming
1852
Home Vineyard Propagation From Cuttings
Warm-Season Veggie Hoop House
What is an OPV?
75 Open-pollinated varieties
What Is Hardtack?
(Hardtack is a cracker-like biscuit, here is a recipe)
When to Harvest Vegetables
Why Fruit Trees Fail to Bear Fruit
Wood Burning Oven Building Plan
A Guide To Worm Composting
Make Your Own Worm Farm
Wormery Information Sheet
Yogurt Making 101
Breakfast
(brunch)
Ideas
The Scoop on Wheat
Making Your Own Baking Mixes
The Wonderful World of Bread
Cookie Extravaganza
(Recipes)
Cooking with Kids
8 Food Storage Recipe Cards
3 Month Pantry Supply List
Pressure Cooking 101
Equivalents, measurements and yields
The Food Storage Pep Talk-
A common sense guide
Zucchini and Summer Squash Chips Recipe
complements of Kristen Fischer @
Passion4Eating.com
What is Shelf Life and Why Should I Care?
What's Up With Survival Seed Kits?
Water & Altitude:
It's Not Boiling Minutes as much as Boiling Temperature