What items did the pioneers need to take on their journey west?

Year round

-salt pork

-potatoes

-corn and oat meal

-bread

-milk, cheese, and butter

-fresh greens such as dandelion leaves

-eggs

-maple syrup

-honey

-fish and eels

-fresh vegetables (grown in home gardens)

-squirrel

-venison

-pigeons

-wild geese, partridge, chicken and turkeys

-hares

-preserved meat from livestock ( salt pork, sausages, smoked ham)

-dried Apples

-root vegetables (carrots, onions, potatoes - stored in root cellar)