There is an interesting article in today's NY Times about root cellars and other longer term food storage:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/06/garden/06root.html



I love Michael Pollan's books but he does point out that there really isn't that much difference between "organic" food carried at stores like Whole Foods and food found at a regular supermarket. His recommendation that we should all try to buy our food from producers that we can visit personally is just not practical for the vast majority of people even in a rich country like America.

Where I live, there is plenty of cactus, cotton, chili and even onions but not much else so Mr. Pollan's ideals are just silly to try to pursue here.