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

One occasionally sees, cut into the side of a hill or lying flat next to a home's foundation, a door in that ground that leads to a drab, potato-colored wonderland of vegetable storage: a root cellar.

The great thing about cabbage, carrots and all the other crops, as described in the fundamentals of root cellaring, is all you need to store them for months is a cold, well-ventilated space. A spare ...

The once common root cellar, considered by some to be a creepy cousin to the basement, fell from popularity after the refrigerator proved to be a productive place to store produce. A number of ...

John Belding at Little Falls Farm in Harrison checks out vegetables stored in his farm's below-ground root cellar with his granddaughter. Credit: Courtesy of Edwin Remsberg Long before the age of ...

A refrigerator in spring and summer, a safe-from-freezing pantry in fall and winter, and a man-made cave dug into a hillside and sealed shut with thick double doors … root cellars were all of those ...

Before refrigeration was common, most people had root cellars at home. The cellar might be underground, in the side of a hill or covered by a sturdy shed to keep food— mostly root vegetables—from ...

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 ...