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This book is about returning to those old ways. We will discuss the various means which you can use to preserve food in your own home. Armed with this information, you could create a fully-stocked pantry, ready for any disaster, even if that’s just making it through the winter. Since the foods we eat grow naturally, we have to accept that they have a natural growing cycle. This means that there will always be seedtime and harvest, regardless of where we live or what sort of food we want to eat. Even animals have a seedtime and harvest, although that is usually totally outside of our control. In hot climates, you can harvest food from nature year-round. Southern Mexico, for example, is a very fruitful area, with most people having a variety of fruit trees on their property. Some of those, like bananas, give fruit year-round, while others only give fruit in their season. But between the two of those, you can find something to eat, pretty much any time of the year. We all need food; that’s a basic fact of life. While you may be able to survive without food for a while, you’ll eventually use up your body’s energy reserves and need to eat more. This has caused a large portion of human activity throughout history to be dedicated to meeting that basic need. Growing food has become one of the world’s major industries. More than that, it’s not only growing food that has become important, but processing, preserving, distributing and selling that food as well.