The other bonus is how good the house smells when you are forgetting it, and later when it comes out!  And you can make things like herb bread that you rarely encounter in the store.

Oh we love homegrown homemade foods. I've become quite the cook lately.
Right now the house smells of garlic, basil and oregano for another batch of dough.
Later I'm going to make some blueberry bread with blueberries I picked over the summer and frozen.
I'm running low on garlic, 75 plants didn't cut it . I'm glad I've got 300 in the ground now.

So this is kinda a review of a product I tried, CBD. Been having lots of joint and mussel pains again. Probably the lyme flaring up again but my wife suggested to try some high grade ( expensive) CBD suave.
Well I was reluctant as I think it's just a snake oil fad thing.
So in about a week of trying it, I concur. Its nothing more than the old standard Ben **** but with a fancy name, price and different smell ( yes, like weed).
For all the hype CBD gets , I just didn't see it as helpful. I guess it's back to the high powered antibiotics again. I don't like taking meds but I gotta do something

I've purchased very little in gear over the summer thru winter season. I badly need a tractor but that's another deal.

What I'm interested in is an outdoor free frozen meats area during winter.
I know in the ground is the coldest but not my thinking. I have many very good portable coolers that will keep ice and frozen foods frozen for a week or better.
My thoughts are utilizing the smokehouse as a cold house during winter months storing foods free that my freezers and fridges cost money and energy.
Would it be not wise and to risky to leave for 3 months usage ? Not concerned about critters.
Anyone done the outdoors non electric storage for pointers ?

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I've purchased very little in gear over the summer thru winter season. I badly need a tractor but that's another deal.

What I'm interested in is an outdoor free frozen meats area during winter.
I know in the ground is the coldest but not my thinking. I have many very good portable coolers that will keep ice and frozen foods frozen for a week or better.
My thoughts are utilizing the smokehouse as a cold house during winter months storing foods free that my freezers and fridges cost money and energy.
Would it be not wise and to risky to leave for 3 months usage ? Not concerned about critters.
Anyone done the outdoors non electric storage for pointers ?

With global warming that idea might not fly

I've built a few walk- in freezers. I know the compressors weren't necessary lots of days in the winter.  Consider that really cold nights will damage some meats. -25  will crystalize tissue. On the other hand, you don't want them going much above zero.  Hard to control. I've never seen a non- mechanical freezer, and God knows my farmer friends would have been discussing it with me at length, had they read about it, somewhere in the  ag newpapers and trade mags.http://smithmeadows.com/farm/how-to-build-a-walk-in-freezer/      This is similar to the ones I've built  for large farm stands.   Basically, I can't figure out how you'd maintain an ideal, let alone safe , temp for more than a few weeks at a go without a mechanically controlled environment.