Food Storage Technology

At the Scandanavian Heritage Park in Minot, we inspected this food storage building built out of logs, some of which were carved. This one sod-topped building is for one family. It’s called a “stabburs.” Found on many farms in Norway, the “stabburs” store grain and other dried foodstuffs on the first floor. Meat, cheese and other foods are stored on the upper floor.

We saw buildings similar to the “stabburs” built by the Athabascans in Alaska. In Alaska they are called “caches.” It could be that food storage in cold climates is more common sense than technology.