Storage of winter vegetables might not seem like a compelling issue if you don't have a root cellar, and let's establish the fact that few of you do — at least not in the sense of a cavern dug ...

Many people who don’t have a root cellar manage to wall off a corner of a regular basement that they can maintain at the ideal temperature of 33 degrees by opening and closing a small cellar ...

Storage of winter vegetables might not seem like a compelling issue if you don’t have a root cellar, and let’s establish the fact that few of you do - at least not in the sense of a cavern dug ...

The modern-day root cellar needs a fair-sized garden to accommodate it, but you’ll need a fair-sized garden to use it anyway, because the Groundfridge is designed to store the excess bounty from ...

The conditions are just easier than they are for a damp root cellar, so as long as the temperature is 50-60 degrees F and the humidity sits around 60-70%, you’re set; your vegetables can sit in ...

Make this root cellar by burying a new concrete septic tank into a hillside. Stow your surplus with these underground root cellar plans. This modern root cellar design turns a never-used septic ...

Food Farm has had some version of a root cellar since Fisher-Merritt’s parents first bought the land in 1988. Looking for a way to improve their winter storage options, they decided to adapt a 5-foot ...

Prepper sites are full of similar ideas, including root cellars made from buried shipping containers, old school buses, boats and cisterns. A traditional wood-beam-and-stone root cellar takes quite a ...

The root cellar was built in the 1950s, but hasn't been recently used. Mike McCleary Minnie Geiger used root cellars for most of her life on the family farm in Morton County.

Many of the cellars we visited in researching our book, Root Cellaring, were 8-by-10 feet or larger, but few of them were filled to capacity. (After all, a 5-by-8 foot space can hold 30 bushels of ...