Food Storage

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    1. However, the company has recently announced a sausage shortage due to a production issue. This has caused many fans of the brand to be disappointed, as they will not be able to enjoy their favorite sausage for a while. The company is working to resolve the issue and hopes to have the sausage back in stock soon.
     
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    You can use this Owens website to search by zip code. It says No Results Found within 50 miles of Dodge City.
     
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    :(:( thank you
     
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    Now I want some Owens sausage...and I've never even tried it.
     
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    you have got to be kidding ? I am cleaning and bagging up last of carrots from garden,, so am on and off for a bit
     
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    I am "food suggestible." I've received recipes in emails, and because it looked so daggone good, I'm off to the store and making it for dinner that night.

    I lack gastronomic impulse control.

    Regarding your carrots: how do you store them? A friend grew up in rural Virginia and he said they piled their root veggies in a corner of the garden and covered then with leaves. When they wanted potatoes, carrots, etc throughout the winter, they would just reach into the leaves and grabbed some.
     
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    Um , did not think of that.. but the rabbits and coyotes and dogs here might get to them that way. First time we have ever grown a real garden I wash them, clean off tops, scrape off the hairs and freeze them.
     
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    You go girl!
     
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    We store our carrots in a "humidified" refrigerator. We have tried storing them in the ground and cellaring them, but neither worked for them. I have seen that some store carrots in the ground and overlay with straw bales. Daughter in Seattle stores hers in the ground, but then here winter climate is a bit different than ours. You should be able to store them in the ground in Virginia, but as @Hedi Mitchell said, the rodents, pests and other things might get them on the surface. I have lost an entire garlic crop to voles even underground.
     
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    Lost all my beets last year from some underground critter. I haven't heard about daughter's parsnips this year. She usually brags on them. She didn't even put any carrots in this year.:(
     
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    Do you have gophers @Mary Stetler ? Other than gophers, voles are the most likely issue. We had a barn/farm cat for many years and she kept the voles under control, but the winter after she died, the voles went crazy and caused all kinds of damage. I had to use vole poison stations to control them and it seems to be working. A feral cat from our past has shown up, so she may get the better of the voles and the rabbits/hares.
     
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