Underground Root Cellar Plans. The perfect location for a root cellar is nestled into an existing soil bank in a well-drained location 10 to 20 yards from your house.

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 ...

Build a passively cooled basement root cellar and take advantage of one the most efficient ways to put up storage crops and home-canned preserves.

Storing crops in a root cellar is a great way to preserve the harvest. But if you don't have one already, don't despair. It's fairly easy to make a space to store vegetables at the proper ...

Creating a cellar for food storage is an ideal method for many reasons: an underground chamber doesn’t see much temperature fluctuation, and during the colder months the conditions within will ...

QUESTION: Is there some way to build a root cellar in Central Florida? With potatoes costing 99 cents for 5 pounds, I think it would be worthwhile to stock up on these and other root crops. ANSWER ...

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 ...

In the 1980s, Perry-O and David Sliwa bought a patch of land, pursuing their desire to live off-grid, designing and building their simple home to include an underground root cellar.

Once upon a time, everybody in New England had one. It’s how you got through – ate through – the winter lacking refrigeration, electricity and supermarkets. Today, root cellars are enjoying ...

Only one, however, had a cinder-block root cellar. It was one of the reasons they picked his place. “We used it for the first time last winter and it was great,” she says.