Winter supply
As winter supplies a quantity of food designated to collect the human or animal and safely store as possible to a natural shortage of food in the winter to survive until the environmental them next spring again provides enough food or summer.
In the case of humans, winter stocks also include stocks of firewood and supplies of feed for their livestock .
Animals
To the variety of animals, create the winter stores belong in mammals , for example, squirrels , pikas , Polarrötelmäuse and mountain pygmy possum in birds such. B. blue jays and pine jays , in insects for example the European honey bee .
human
All the peoples of the north and the temperate latitudes have developed winter storage techniques, but this varies greatly, depending on the food supply and climate.
Among the partially millennia practiced techniques of preservation freezing (due to natural winter cold in the north), drying include fish , meat and fruit , the Drying of fruits and mushrooms, the use of lactic fermentation particularly of vegetables (eg. B. Preparation of Sauerkraut ), the dry storage of grain and nuts, the curing of meat and fish, the smoking of meat and fish, dehydration or excess sugar (syrup, jam), storage under oil (vegetables) as well as livestock keeping with the aim of later slaughter.