My Cold Room FOOD STORAGE Tour & Transformation | Prepping for a Years Worth of Food Storage
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- Опубліковано 2 лип 2020
- Putting up food is one of goals as a small homestead and as the crops begin to come off the trees and out of the garden, it was time to transform the ugly cold room into something much more inspiring! Come see!
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Oh I love how this project turned out! Bonus: the transformation was practically free. Can't wait to bring ALL the crops in from the garden!
Why do you wet the carrots before storing them?
Wow you have this down to a science😀do you ever have problems with rats or mice getting in there? Thank you for all your videos that you share💜🙏🏼💜
All the baskets full of produce L❤️VE!! Music link?!? 🙏🙏🙏 You’ve dome a fabulous job here. 👌🏻
City girl here! The carrots in the bin with soil and water; is that to preserve them? If so, for how long?
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I just want you to know I'm 16 and I've been watching you for a year now and you've been such an inspiration to me
These days you have to look long and hard for decent adult mentors. If I had daughters you would be one, my son who wants to learn everything he can about homesteading too.
I just love how you all just embrace the fact that your home is over 100 years old. Most people wouldn't be caught dead storing their carrots In bins filled with wet dirt! The wonderful mother earth not only give us a luscious bounty of food, and a place to keep them cool. Well done Elliott family!
Lol I was thinking the very same thing seeing box of dirt going in.... brand new home here...housekeeping... I am constantly fighting my kids over dirty socks. But now we got a cow, goats and garden in full swing. I better decide we hich way to go before I explode. 😁🤨🤨🤨
@@beautifulhomestead1174 - Just remember, we came from the dirt, it's not a bad thing!! :)
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Actually, it depends on where you live. Living close to nature is pretty normal in rural Europe and even in some cities, too. Many of us learned this way of life from our grandparents
I was so touched by the goodness of this family, it brought tears to my eyes, I know that sounds kinda cheesy, but my heart longs for a life like this, pure goodness. I'll get there! See you on the other side, in the mean time thanks for inspiring and for bringing genuine truth and goodness to youtube. God Bless
Yes, in Russia a cool room under the house was something traditional, before people started moving into cities. Then, when that became a thing, the Soviet Union created communal cooling spaced for each building, where people would store fermented foods, potatoes and tubers, etc. Even today, most people have a cool room in such communal spaces (some as their private property, some under rent). It is quite practical. Though in the XXI century, many young people believe it to be obsolete, but personally, I have recently invested in one for my small family (since the one we shared with my Grand-mother just didn't suit us, being overly humid), and I think that as the idea of eco-living and growing what you eat becomes popular again, it will become more and more popular with people of my generation.
I have wonderful memories of my Italian grandparents. They both came over from Italy in their mid-teens to live the American Dream and that they did. They spoke mainly Italian with family, so I learned a second language by the time I was 4. Gramma was a housewife raising 10 kids, while Grampa built up a very successful painting company that is now run by his grandchildren and great-grandchildren after my uncle retired. We had parties and family gatherings almost weekly at their home as weather permitted. Grampa built up his grape arbor to be 15'x25' with bunches of grapes hanging down and tables and chairs set up all season long. There was an old double sink for washing what he grew in his garden with grapefruit-size white sweet peaches, almonds, and plump figs, and the apple tree that grew 3 varieties of apple on it from grampa's magic grafting abilities. In the fall we all would gather in the summer kitchen set up in the basement during the grape harvest time. He also had a cold storage room with balls of cheese and dried sausages hanging in there with canned goodies gramma made, and of course 3-50-gallon wood barrels full of wine he made. During the harvest time which was over two weekend-long pressings that everyone participated in, even the kids. We ate, we dance the tarantella, and we would go home exhausted from the eating, the laughter, and the pressing. I wanted a cold room too, but this house has a half-finished cinder block room with a furnace and washer and dryer in it. To warm to store anything in. Love yours!
(grampa's garden had a pit at the back that all of the grass clipping, kitchen scraps, and garden scraps went into in layers, then another layer of soil and on and on. Then next spring he dug the pit again, using the compost made from the previous season).
Here in Italy, we store our food in the stone cantinas with vaulted stone ceilings. Been doing it that way for centuries. Stone moderates the temperature all year (not too warm in summer, not too cold in winter) and they are on and sometimes under or built into the earth.But there has to be some air flow, usually with a small window or two to prevent mold in the wet seasons.
I love the idea of the stone cantinas. The ground is too unstable here in So. Calif to do anything more than earthship adobe and dugouts four feet deep.
I see a little boy who really loves his mom!
i see a kid in a ransom "proof-of-life" tape... yikes... assuming they're planning on going down in a blaze of gunfire... damn those feds...
@@jeffstanhope4335 quick question: what the hell is wrong with you
If you didnt know, you can use the carrot heads in pesto to bulk it out and add more nutrients. Just love all you videos so much. Thankyou x
I live in the UK and find you and your lovely family enchanting. I also have a country kitchen with the fridge and freezer reallocated to another space. I would love a root cellar like yours for my preserves but alas my home is built on rock. Love and best wishes to you all and thank you for sharing your lives with us.
It makes me smile to see you raising your children like this. AND I loved the music!
That was nice to watch. I love watching homestead videos with my first cup of coffee. Ever inspiring. Your Life looks beautiful, GREAT JOB! ❤️
Very interesting ..I wish to know more please about storing the carrots in humid hearth
I would love to have a nice walk in cooler in my basement. Right now we have a smallish cold room and a cool room for dry storage. Keeping root veg in dirt is one of the easiest ways that I learned as a child to keep the harvest longer. Love how you make it a family event as it should be.
Oh how I wish we had a cold room like this for storing homemade and homegrown foods!! I’m envious. We love the old fashioned ways of food preservation and obviously so do you.
Greetings from Melbourne Australia, I also live in a 100 year old property which has been modernised. It is magnificent what you have done to the Elliott Homestead in such a short time. I admire your courage in you're English influence of the traditional cottage garden & house style and way of life 😊 which you are building as a family.
Gorgeous!!! I love how the kids aren't even concerned that the carrots are "dirty". That's how mine are too. Just a quick brush off if needed.
It turned out so nice. No expensive remodel required. Can you do a video on how the room is refrigerated?
I would give my husband's left foot for a room like that!
Would love to learn more on storing for winter. We recently built a root cellar so still learning alot..
It’s like your own farmers market every day! 😍 love all the bins and baskets. Such a sweet family ♥️
What at good feeling to have, starting bringing in some of the harvest . I couldn't help but laugh. Elderflower gin cordial , it reminds me of the sisters on the Waltans. They always had a cordial. it was good for everything. Papa's recipe. I really enjoy your video's. thanks Joyce
I just stumbled onto this video/channel. That little boy hugging you so tightly in the beginning is just so precious ❤️
That's my Owen
Look at the Blessings from your garden. When we work hard on God's land using our hands. Hope the Lord Bless and keep you during these times. Simply lovely.
Your farm is just so sweet! Loved the music on this one too - so happy and summery. Would love to learn more about how you preserve your harvest - like how you were storing your carrots.
For everyone asking, she made a video once about the walk in cooler. They insulated the space really well. Then added an AC unit and bought something that hacks the AC unit to bring the temp down a lot colder. Or maybe that was Parisienne Farmgirl who did the video...
that is a cool-bot that you add to an air conditioner to make it a cooler/walk-in.
I know Justin Rhodes did one along with Lumah Acres. Just look up cool-bots
Yes both Justin Rhoads and Lumnah Acres have cool rooms, it’s like having a walk in fridge like in a restaurant.... awesome way to store and preserve food... it wouldn’t last that long in a regular fridge for sure...
How would that be possible then if the grid went down?
jef well they have them but they are on the grid and both have back up generators so that’s the answer to that
show us HOW you make use of the fermented foods!
Simply lovely. Wishing you a bountiful harvest for 2020!
Cheers to you! Those carrots are gorgeous! And your root cellar project is just lovely. Found your channel a few months ago, love what you are sharing. Thank you for awesome inspiration!
What’s the temperature of the cold room? In order to keep butter from going off? 👍🏻
some of those carrot tops go very nicely in a soup - tasty
Loving your channel! What a amazing idea to have a cold room
Lovely! ♡ I love how the shelf turned out, especially with those old crates. ♡
Beautifully done. Wonderful to see families working Tigray her. Blessings Always🇨🇦
I love videos about your cold room!!!!❤️❤️❤️
Beautiful cottage; beautiful garden; beautiful family! 💖
Ready for all the blessings from your harvest 🙏🏻
Your family is so bless with a lot of food. 🙏❤️
So inspiring! I planted carrots for the first time this Spring. I get to harvest next week and I’m so excited! 😆 I love your gardening videos.
Shaye this is beautiful. To God be all the glory. I love your kids snacking on the fresh carrots.
That boy loves his mama ❤️❤️❤️
Such a beautiful space, it came out great!!Alright, you’ve inspired me...I need to get ours cleaned out and under control before harvest time too. We’re still a few weeks behind you all.
This is really amazing. I am an interior designer and can really appreciate the beauty youve created here :). Blessings
Thank you !! You have inspired me to make a walk-in cooler in my house 🙌🏽 I love your backdrop, it is all so pretty 😍
I love this. Thank you. I just moved into our 100 year old home. I found some empty drawers and can't wait to fill them with storage. I love the walk in cold storage. I hope their is a video on how you made it.
Looks good and love the music.
I love your videos. Loving the garden, good storage, then cooking with it videos.
Thank you for the calmness you bring me
No root cellar or cold rooms in Fl.... It barely gets cold enough to even kill a Skeeter in Florida's so called winters. LoL.
I really like the cooler! Do you have a video on the the set up or install of the cooler?
Wow! Ypu did very well with your carrots! I guess all your hard work with preparing the soil definitely looks like it paid off
Your videos have been exceptionally beautiful and inspiring lately. Thanks for sharing the beauty ✨
Wow what a awesome cooler!!! I never knew you could store vegies like that. Very interesting. 💖💜💖
Wow looks so gorgeous! Love all the details, what a wonderful tour!
Our growing season is a bit behind this year
(or, glass half full, maybe they've been way ahead in the few previous years)...so we're just beginning to see our gardens burst forth, but this video makes me anxious to begin harvesting in earnest! Love your cellar and cooler room!
I’m really enjoying your videos, first discovered yesterday. Will you please share the details of the cold room? ... including how it is constructed, the cooling source, and its maintenance. If there’s a video on this subject, please direct me to it. Thank you
Sila Craeg i had the same question...what keeps it cold? A walk in cooler has fans and a compressor to keep them cold. What temperature is her cold room kept?
i had the same question... That will be nice to know. greetings from switzerland
I have the same question
I also have the same question! I LOVE the idea of a walk in fridge basically... but don't know how it's done!
Found the answer...
Ac unit with a coolbot (look it up). Coolbit makes ac unit keep running. She keeps it 34 degrees in there.
You are always doing such fun projects!!
Interesting storage information. Thank you for sharing. Your walk in looks wonderful now. Thanks for sharing. BLessings.
I think this is one of your best videos. The quality is outstanding. Great music choice.
How do you keep rodents out of there??? We live in Central Florida, Oh, how wish we could have a cold room or root celler
New sub here. I really like your cold storage room. I will be looking over some of your older vids.
Very calming and enjoyable to watch, thank you 😊
Nifty😘. At first I thought you were going to put pavers on the floor. Everything looks nice. I never knew that’s how you store carrots. Maybe sometime you can tell us how it’s done and why. I will never do this because of my health but it’s nice to watch and learn.
Carrots and other root vegetables are often stored in damp soil or in damp sawdust to mimic being in the ground. It keeps them from drying out and shriveling up in storage and makes them last longer without rotting.
Homestead Hopeful Tara Thank you, I never knew this. 😘
How long can you store them like that and don't they start growing again? 🤷♀️ Do you wet the soil during the storage period? 🤷♀️
Christien Botha They will keep around 4 to 6 months stored like this. They won’t keep growing, because they won’t have the tops on them and they won’t be getting any sunlight. You might need to wet the soil occasionally, but you want to keep it damp, not wet. If it’s too wet, they will rot. You also want to check them off and on while they are in storage and remove any that are rotting or damaged, and keep the carrots separated from each other (not touching).
You can also leave them in the ground all winter if you happen to live where it doesn’t freeze.
I loved the cheerful music! I loved your beautiful space . I can imagine a lot of work went into it. Great job! You inspired me to take an area in my home that is not no nice lol and bring beauty to it!
Happy Fourth of July ! -nancy
I so love your editing. Every video, every time.
Do you have a video on how you made your cold storage room and how cold it is ect?? I love this and have basement in an old house (about 70 years old) and would love to do this!!
I wished there was a wow or a love button. I love your place and btw my last name is also Elliott so your farm is even more special. LOL
I would live with this beautiful family!
So lovely, beautiful and inspirational! ❤️😍
Beautiful and inspiring!!
Very beautiful video, the farm is amazing! ❤️
God’s blessing Is so bountiful. Loved the music
Beautiful family
Beautiful music!
We sell vacant land that can be developed into a residential area. Surely our customers would love this video to get some ideas on how to start. Thanks for this video!
How did u make the elderflower gin cordial? Think it could work w/ vodka? Just planted some elderberry after watching 1 of your videos that showed u making elderberry syrup. It looked so good! How long does your elderberry syrup last? What's your recipe?
I’m loving the dirt food storage wow
Excellent cold room.
It would be nice if when people do videos they would include the zone that they live in and the varieties of fruit trees and such that they are growing successfully, and which have problems.
Oh it turned out so nice! Proud for you!!! I would love to have one! You had some big jars of fermented foods. I tried it and got mold! Ugh! May try again. Your home is so inviting and cozy feeling. Love your channel!
More salt :)
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I loved this video thank you for sharing your dreams with us 💘
Beautiful! I would love to know more about this elderberry gin cordial!!! Sounds very interesting and tasty! Are there any videos about this?
Look at the cream line on that milk!!
It's lovely!
Wondering why the carrots get washed before storing. You are storing them in compost or potting soil?
To keep them firm. It's potting soil.
@@theelliotthomestead Hello, I'm trying to learn about storing veg too. I was surprised when your husband wet the soil on the carrots! I thought they had to be in dry soil or sand? Can you tell me more? Thanks!!
What a beautiful video!
What part of the country is this incredible place. Our old family homestead in Oklahoma had a cellar they used to store food.
I think it’s in Washington.
Do you store the beets the same way you store the carrots? In moist soil.
This was a particularly interesting and inspiring experience
I'm STOKED on my basement cold-room build out. Built it last winter but didn't get the ventillation/air-flow to the outside cold worked out and installed until this week (mid 90's currently, night-time 80-ish - not really optimal at the moment). Can't wait for Oct for the cold nights to fire it up and get 'er goin'. I've split mine into two - cool storage and cold storage. Two different zones sealed off with two separate vent settings. I plan on keeping one in the 30's (as much as possible depending on outside temps) and one in the mid 50's [F].
Winter operations will simply be venting to outside cold air.
Next summer we add the CoolBot for full, year-round walk-in cold room.
That's real living!
Beautiful. I want a cold storage spot as well. Working on my husband. Yours looks amazing and now I am starving and full of envy :) And your Rosemary is to die for. Do you grow it from seed? Wonderful video.
Learned much. Hard work, but benefits outweighed. Thank you. Another enjoyable video. Happy 4th!
In joy your videos love the cottage look of your flowers makes me want to fix my yard cuter thank you for your inspiration please keep your videos comingThey are very relaxing and inspiring
I just found your channel and I’m in love!
I luv all your videos!!!!!!!
What a great video. 🤗
You can make a really yummy pesto using the carrot tops in place of basil. But that cow looked very excited
Very envious!
I just finished my three year long project of a root cellar at our subdivision "homestead," and then we moved! In our "Michigan" basement (dirt floor), there is a crawlspace to a back room. I'd like to convert this into a new root cellar by putting insulation in the crawlspace, and constructing an egress from the outside for access.
Love it! Thanks for sharing :)
Hi, I am new to your channel and I love it already. You have a calming voice and in all this chaos its a relief. Do you have a video on how to make the cooler?