Hallo Kim, (Please note I never say 'hello' either :o) Thursday, 09 September, 2004, 07:01:09, you wrote:
KGT> Greetings, KGT> [Please note I never say 'hello'] KGT> First I would like to thank the committee for finding a new home for KGT> biofuels. If someone would be kind enough to share the information on how KGT> this list is set up, I would love to move my lists to elsewhere, too. KGT> I have been doing a great deal of research since my post much earlier this KGT> summer about how to preserve the harvest. I have discovered lacto KGT> fermented vegetables which are quite wonderful. The problem is now that KGT> instead of needing a bunch of freezers, I need a bunch of KGT> refrigerators. I have also acquire a Jersey cow name Carol, so I now KGT> make cheese that needs to be aged. The long term storage temperature needs KGT> to be below 50F. For corning beef and other things I need below 40F but KGT> above 32F [0 C]. I remember you live in Texas but I don't remember if you ever said where. The valley, hill country, east Texas? My father was from Harlingen and I lived in west Texas in San Angelo for a time. Back in the mid seventies Mother Earth News had an article about making an above ground root cellar. Super insulated including the door if I remember correctly. You could try that. Set it up on blocks and frame it up and then put on the inner and outer walls with insulation. Haul in caliche and berm up around the thing after putting on a moisture-proof barrier. You would have to make sure the thing was extremely well insulated overhead and it would have to be pretty tight to keep from gaining heat inside. Can you get caliche where you are? We used it in west Texas to line ponds to hold water. I suppose if you had to you could run tile and rock underneath and build up a base which would be higher than the regular terrain and then build on top of that. Top it off with sheet metal roofing either white or silver to reflect the heat. I don't know if this would work or not but it may be worth a try. Good luck. I have a partner in Seguin who could have done it for you but he got a job as construction superintendent for Dillard's and goes all over the country working on their stores now. :o/ Happy Happy, Gustl KGT> I have a high water table so I can only go down 4 feet and the ground is KGT> 65F at this depth. I do make use of this for cooling my buildings, but KGT> this is a far way from the root cellar I need. My water comes out of the KGT> ground at 80F so it is no help. We really do need to go off grid so I am KGT> really trying to keep my power consumption to a minimum. KGT> Root cellaring sounds so wonderful, but I have yet to figure out how to do KGT> it in a hot humid climate. Any suggestions? KGT> Bright Blessings, KGT> Kim KGT> _______________________________________________ KGT> Biofuel mailing list KGT> [EMAIL PROTECTED] KGT> http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel KGT> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: KGT> http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html KGT> Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): KGT> http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ -- Je mehr wir haben, desto mehr fordert Gott von uns. Mitglied-Team AMIGA ICQ: 22211253-Gustli ******** The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. C. S. Lewis, "The Screwtape Letters" ******** Es gibt Wahrheiten, die so sehr auf der Stra§e liegen, da§ sie gerade deshalb von der gewšhnlichen Welt nicht gesehen oder wenigstens nicht erkannt werden. ******** Those who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music. George Carlin ******** The best portion of a good man's life - His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. William Wordsworth _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
