Setting Up an AWESOME Larder for Food Storage!

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This week, we are making some serious progress in our underground larder! We are creating lots of practical storage spaces for canned goods, shelf-stable items, and other pantry goods.
You can see the original plans I found online here (though I modified them a bit for our personal preferences):
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4 окт 2024

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@farmyourbackyard2023 7 месяцев назад

I bought Muscle shelves for my canned foods. If you buy two shelf sets, you can use the brackets from one to make extra shelves on the other. I have custom shelves now that easily and efficiently hold all my canned goods with no cutting or building necessary. Since they are movable, I can take them with me wherever I go.

@ADifferentWay 7 месяцев назад

There are many choices for shelf varieties. We did this primarily for economy. Took a little extra time and the purchase of plywood, but it allowed me to customize for my liking based on previous experience. I also like that they’re built in individual units, which makes them very portable should we ever want to move them.

@SusanA1056 7 месяцев назад

May I suggest putting mac tac (Washable shelf liner) on each shelf. That way if there is an accident it can be easily washed off or even removed, if necesary. Your shelves might also need a small lip in the front of each shelf to help prevent anything from falling off for any reason. I love your shelves. Great job!

@ADifferentWay 7 месяцев назад

I did consider some type of shelf liner, especially in the drawers. For now, I use the paper just to get my produce out of boxes, and off the larder floor! These are great ideas, thanks.

@ryanj.hanson6920 7 месяцев назад

I would rub the bottom edges of the drawers with beeswax or if space allows get some scrap laminate from a cabinet shop. Cut it into runner strips.

@ADifferentWay 7 месяцев назад

Excellent ideas! I also considered shelf paper or such. Anything that will allow you to take it out and clean it thoroughly between seasons could work!

@itsnotthesamething 7 месяцев назад

Put water in your clean canning jars, with a clean used lid. You'll have extra water in an emergency, and when you get ready to use your jars, you can just pour the water out or onto a plant.

@itsnotthesamething 7 месяцев назад

Oh, and your storage looks amazing! I dream of something like that. Thanks for your video. Subscribed.

@ADifferentWay 7 месяцев назад

Interesting idea!

@victoriaklein9441 7 месяцев назад

Pleas don’t store onions and potatoes close to each other. Onions give a gas off of them that spoils the potatoes. Try to keep them far away from each other if possibly. Love the shelves, when I had ours built the spacing was poorly thought out, I just put up with the mistake now. Like your video.

@ADifferentWay 7 месяцев назад

Once we complete the project, regular potatoes will be stored in the root cellar while onions will be stored in the larder. They will be a room apart for just that reason! For now, though, I just needed to get them up off the floor!😁

@rachelwickart275 7 месяцев назад

What sort of mitigation did you do to keep water/flooding from damaging your larder? I lost most of my pantry/root cellar stuff in a recent flood due to water backing up through the storm drains, despite backflow valves. The water collected faster than the sump pump could get rid of it. Yours really looks like a good tornado shelter, too!

@ADifferentWay 7 месяцев назад

We put a lot of planning into this larder based on previous experience. We actually selected the property with a nice slope to it, which causes water to drain downhill anyway. We put the house and larder towards one of the higher points of the property. Under and around the foundation is a thick gravel bed with drain channels that funnel out the hill in front of the house. There is also a water barrier attached directly to the foundation wall to help direct water down into the gravel and around the house to the front hill. I think our entire southern end of the state would have to flood before our basement could flood.

@metamud8686 7 месяцев назад

So did the solvents in the glue melt the styrofoam at all?

@ADifferentWay 7 месяцев назад

Just be sure to use solvent approved for the Styrofoam. You can Google it online to find different brands. But so far we’ve had no issue and we’ve used one of the Loctite adhesives on several projects. It seems to be holding up just fine.