Imagine being able to enjoy fresh, organic produce year-round. Now imagine the same without having to pay outrageous off-season grocery store or farmer’s market prices. What you have just imagined is ...

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 ...

Our root-cellar-in-a-box overflows with potatoes. Without a cellar, what’s an approachable way to store my root crops through winter? Build a root vegetable storage box for a small-scale way to ...

If you are contemplating starting a small farm, or have been toying with the idea of building a root cellar so you can store enough of your garden’s produce to feed you all winter long, “Beyond the ...

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 ...

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 ...

As more people commit to buying their food locally, the age-old concept of the root cellar is making a comeback. From New York City to Wisconsin, the cool, dry places that were necessities in homes of ...

What does it say about our society that a video touting a prefab root cellar built by a trendy Dutch designer has been viewed 1.8 million times? That people are more paranoid about the coming ...

With cold weather on the root cellar doorstep, they plan to have a stocked and functioning building by mid-November. Next year we hope to dramatically increase our garden space to plant more winter ...

Allie Barker, a home gardener, wild foods harvester and root cellar builder was a guest speaker at the recent Bioneers Conference at UAA. She brought her copy of the book pictured to the left, written ...