It’s harvest time for many [Grow] Network members – and hopefully there is more food coming in than you know what to do with!
Marjory sent me this handy guide from Cornell, and I thought that it would be useful to share it with everybody – to help make decisions about how you’re going to put up your harvest.
This is a PDF from the extension service at Cornell University, with a ton of information about how to properly harvest and store a variety of crops. It’s got recommendations for about 50 fruits and veggies, along with some good information about storage options – different places around the homestead where it’s safe to store a surplus, and some creative ideas for packing materials and containers you can use.
One especially helpful little tidbit that’s in here is to always store your fruits and vegetables separately – fruits release ethylene which can cause your vegetables to ripen more quickly. And stored fruits can take on the taste of nearby vegetables… Who knew?
You can read or download the original PDF here: Storage Guidelines for Fruits & Vegetables
Many thanks to Eric de Long and S. Reiners of the Cornell Cooperative Extension, Chemung County
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Many thanks & blessings for this great information
Very useful info for life now OR for a prolonged power down situation. I find the storage times to be very conservative based on my fridge storage of garden produce, better safe than sorry.