storage

i've been doing some thinking about food storage technology ( not necessarily modern food storage...rather a variety of cultural responses to the problem ) so i decided to do an experiment with my jerusalem artichokes...since they can overwinter in the ground where they are planted ( or growing ferrally) why shouldn't i be able to store the harvest from campus in my backyard? couldn't think of a good reason why not so i am going to try it with the entire harvest form campus...the top photo is of a newly commissioned raised bed in my back yard with 160 pounds of composted cow manure ready to be turned in...the middle is today's 161 tuber harvest in a twelve inch deep trench, spread out as evenly as their shapes would allow...and the bottom photo is the end result...more as i dig them up and utilize them...they will be out by spring...that bed is for eastern gamagrass, teosinte ( there will be an attempt at that on campus as well ) and spring wheat...i do not want that many sunchokes loose anywhere...it sacres me thinking about it