How to Build an Old-Fashioned Root Cellar for This Year's Harvest

A root cellar is a homesteader’s secret weapon during their mission to full self-sufficiency. It provides peace of mind in ...

Some Home Gardeners Are Building Underground Root Cellars in Their Backyards to Store Harvests, And It’s Changing How They Think About Buying Groceries

Daniel Mercer never planned to dig anything underground when he first started gardening in his suburban Iowa backyard.
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Root cellars: a time-tested tradition

The idea of a root cellar may seem antiquated, but as Steve Maxwell and Jennifer MacKenzie point out, “The true test of an idea is how durable it is, and root clears have proven to be a surprisingly ...
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Living off the Land: Root cellars offer old technology for modern sustainability

I am in the process of writing and producing a university peer-reviewed publication on root cellars for the Intermountain West. And I thought it would be fitting and interesting to share a few of the ...
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Root cellars and storing vegetables in winter

I once had the opportunity to "visit" a root cellar when I lived in West Virginia. It was built into a small hill and had lots of rock, dirt and sod as insulation. A root cellar is just that - a ...
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How to Build a Root Cellar for This Year's Harvest

A root cellar is a homesteader's secret weapon during their mission to full self-sufficiency. It provides peace of mind in the face of potential power outages to safely store all that precious produce ...