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 ...

Storing vegetables like onions covered with peat moss or sand in plastic totes is one way to replicate root cellar conditions. Credit: Courtesy of Edwin Remsberg Root cellars help to preserve certain ...

If you've had a good year, you might have been lucky enough to harvest more crops than you can eat. This means that you need somewhere to store them, which could be a root cellar. A root cellar is a ...

The Deep Roots Food Hub (DRFH), a group in West Carleton committed to creating a more secure and sustainable food system, wanted to build a root cellar that small-scale farmers could rent to store ...

As long time homesteaders, we have used various versions of a root cellar to store our fruits and vegetables. Root cellars are an essential way to properly store those precious commodities to retain ...