We should be displaying our garden produce the way hunters display deer heads. Pulling a humongous carrot from your own garden is no small feat. However, trying to figure out what to do with 40 pounds ...

Imagine stepping into a cool underground cellar in the dead of winter and pulling out fresh, crisp vegetables like they were just harvested yesterday. No grocery store runs, no bags of wilted greens, ...

I had a banner year for root crops this year, and storage is a problem. For the past few years I had been storing root crops in a spare fridge, or in an old 25-gallon crock with a plywood lid in my ...

Home gardening continues to grow in popularity, with Gen Z and Millenials increasing their efforts to adopt gardening as part of their seasonal lifestyle. While it's easy to get excited about ...

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.

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 ...

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'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 ...