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food storage

Food caches, Hooper Bay, Alaska, 1929. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis

Food storage is both a traditional domestic skill and is important industrially. Food is stored by almost every human society and by many animals. 0. Storing of food has several main purposes:

preparation for periods of scarcity or faminetaking advantage of short term surplus of food as at harvest timeenabling a better balanced diet throughout the yearpreparing for special events and celebrationsplanning for catastrophe or emergencyprotection against predators or others

Domestic food storage

Grain

Grain is stored in rigid sealed containers to prevent ingress of moisture or attack by vermin. For domestic quantities metal cans are used (in the USA the smallest practical grain storage uses closed-top #10 metal cans).

Storage in grain sacks is not effective. Mold and pests destroy a 25kg cloth sack of grain in a year — even if stored off the ground in a dry area. Access Perma Pak Food Storage.