Plan for your Winter Food Storage Now: The Root Pit Before refrigerators, people used many different methods to preserve their food. Many of which we have or will go over in detail on this site: Canning. Salting. Curing. Fermentation. Smoking. Food Cellars. And this, probably the most primitive of all: The Root Pit. It’s just how it sounds, a pit is dug, lined with straw, and root veggies (and a cabbage or ten) are stacked there, only to be covered with more straw, where they wait until the day a hungry farmer loosens the straw and pulls out the slightly brine-ee veggies for him and his family to have for…