NOTE: Food preservation and storage guidance does change over time, so be sure to check on the latest recommendations from Extension or other trusted sources.
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Resources & References
GENERAL PRESERVATION:
Janet Greene, Ruth Hertzberg, and Beatrice Vaughan, 2010, Putting Food By:Fifth Edition. A Plume Book, Penguin Group, New York.
Carol Hupping, 1986, Stocking Up: The Third Edition of the Classic Preserving Guide. Fireside Books, Simon & Schuster, New York.
Susan McClure (editor), 1995, Preserving Summer’s Bounty. Rodale Press, Emmaus, Pennsylvania.
The Gardeners & Farmers of Terre Vivante, 1999, Preserving Food Without Freezing or Canning. Chelsea Green Publishing Company, White River Junction, Vermont.
National Center for Home Food Preservation
Storey Publishing/Hachette Book Group – search for “preserving food”
ENERGY USE IN PRESERVATION:
David and Marcia H. Pimentel, 2008, Food, Energy, and Society, Third Edition. CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, Boca Raton, Florida.
COLD STORAGE:
Mike and Nancy Bubel, 1991, Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits and Vegetables. Storey Publishing, North Adams, Massachusetts.
Storing Vegetables and Fruits at Home – Washington State University
Cold Cellars for Year-Round Local Food and Farming – John Biernbaum, Michigan State University
Vegetable Harvest and Storage – University of Missouri Extension
GROWING WINTER GREENS:
Eliot Coleman, 1999, Four-Season Harvest. Chelsea Green Publishing Company, White River Junction, Vermont.
2009, The Winter Harvest Handbook: Year-Round Vegetable Production Using Deep Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses. Chelsea Green Publishing Company, White River Junction, Vermont.
Niki Jabour, 2011, The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener. Storey Publishing, North Adams, Massachusetts.
TRANSPORTATION:
Joy C. Rickman, Diane M. Barrett, and Christine M. Bruhn, 2007, “Nutritional comparison of fresh, frozen and canned fruits and vegetables. Part 1. Vitamins C and B and phenolic compounds.” Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 87: 930-944.
Christopher I. Weber and H. Scott Matthews, 2008, “Food-Miles and the Relative Climate Impacts of Food Choices in the United States.” Environmental Science & Technology 42(10): 3508-3513.
CLIMATE:
Jennifer Edwards, Jim Kleinschmit, and Heather Schoonover, 2009, Identifying our Climate “Foodprint” Assessing and Reducing the Global Warming Impacts of Food and Agriculture in the U.S. Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
FOOD SYSTEM MOVEMENTS:
Melissa A. Click, and Ronit Ridberg, 2010, “Saving Food: Food Preservation as Alternative Food Activism.” Environmental Communication 4(3): 301-317.
