Root Cellar Poem by Shawn

Storage of Home Grown Vegetables-Here is a method that uses a metal barrel at an angle, similar to the garbage can method in some respects.

Store Your Food-In the old days people relied on pantries and root cellars to help keep produce and other provisions fresh.

Earthly Pursuits- The War Garden Victorious - Victory Edition 1919 War Gardening and Home Storage of Vegetables

Hope Lodge-The floor of the root cellar is a clay dirt. The large stone mass is the structurally supporting chimney stack, similar to the one in the meat cellar, and it too may have had shelves inside originally.

Garbage Can Root Cellar-Cheap mans way to store vegetables during the winter from Permapak.

And what a congress of stinks!-
Roots ripe as old bait,
Pulpy stems, rank, silo-rich,
Leaf mold, manure, lime, piled against slippery planks,
Nothing would give up life:
Even the dirt kept breathing a small breath.
- Theodore Roethke, Root Cellar, 1948

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There are various types of Root Cellars including ones connected and those separate from your home. Some made from earth and others made from old freezers, culverts, cement or simple garbage cans. Whatever your choice they are excellent for year around food storage. Remember safety though and make sure your root cellar is well ventilated if its large enough to walk into.

A Plan for All Seasons Why winter was NOT just a cold gruel world for 1830's New Englanders By Mark Ashton From Old Sturbridge Visitor, Winter 1997.

A Root Cellar for Your Homestead-The low-tech root cellar, will keep your harvest fresh for two months or longer, depending on what you store, without ozone-depleting refrigeration, or electricity.

BBC-Short article on Root Cellars-Dig a hole and voila, a root cellar.

Building an outside root cellar-Werner Gysi wrote this nice little article on building and designing a root cellar. Visit his home page on Harmonic Farming.

Country Life-Mrs. Restino's Root Cellars Remembering the joys of root-cellaring

The Cutting Edge-Harvesting and storing-Cooking and eating fresh from the garden is one of life's great pleasures. Continuing to enjoy your home-grown produce during the depths of winter however, can be equally as satisfying, and easily achieved by following a few simple steps.

Ehow-How to make a root cellar from your deep freezer or old fridge.

Elliston-Root Cellar Capital of Newfoundland. If you ever get to this part of Canada visit some of the 100+ cellars.

Emergency Food Storage-The Epi-Center provides imformation of the Pallet Root Center.

The Essential Carrot-Some day I would like to own a root cellar, an unheated room of modest proportions with a dirt floor, and enough space inside for a few barrels of potatoes and other root crops and boxes of apples that need low temperatures and high moisture to store well.

The Free-Lance Star-What's the best way to store vegetables? 11/9/2002 "SOMETHING THAT MIGHT be useful for your 'Worth Trying' box," a fellow gardener said to me the other day as we were both in line buying coffee, "is that you can pick green tomatoes and they will ripen if you pack them right."

Home Storage of Fruits and Vegetables in a Root Cellar-Information from the University of Missouri-Columbia

Integrated Publishers-Provides information on storing food underground including in boxes.

Keeping Food Cool-Use of Root Cellars from Concord Magazine.

Michigan State University Extension-Plans for a Potato Cellar.

Mother Earth News-Sept/Oct 1990 Stocking the Root Cellar Also Year Around Harvest from 1991.. Building an outdoor Root Cellar from 1998.

No Root Cellar?-Long before there were climate-controlled crispers, the root cellar kept the kitchen supplied with fresh vegetables during the cold winter months.

Pioneer Thinking-Preserving your harvest-Cold storage of vegetables such as cabbage, beets, carrots, potatoes, squash, and turnips can give you the best tasting and healthiest food of the four methods, and may even be the least expensive in the long run. And you can eat every one of these garden-fresh even 4 to 6 months after they've been harvested!

Pit Storage-Unusual design from Backwoods Home Magazine for storing your fruits and veggies.

Return of the Root Cellars-Informative place for food storage from Canada

Root Cellar Home Page-Walton Feed puts together an excellent page for you to do research on root cellars. Visit all the pages for lots of info. Dugout Here.

Minnesota Dept of Agriculture--Root Cellaring and Computer-controlled Ventilation for Efficient Storage of Organic Vegetables in a Northern Market

Root Cellar Storage-Potatoes, squash, purpose of ethylene and more

Root Cellars-Construction and usage-Can also listen to hoe-down music if you wish.

Root Cellars-Root cellars have long been used to store food in order to increase the diversity of flavors on the winter table. Root cellars allow roots and other crops to be preserved through cooler weather in cool, dark, and moderately humid storage space.

Storage of Home Grown Vegetables-Article that provides various methods of using the earth as a cooler for your gourds and veggies.

Storing Vegetables-using a box in the basement or a buried garbage ca

Troubled Times-Some good tips from someone who has practiced storing vegetables in his root cellar.

Vegetable Listing-So you've got the root cellar ready for stocking. But what vegetables should you include and how long can they be stored?

Vegetable Storage In Root Cellars-Methods in the cold of Alaska.

Walk In Cooler-Pretty neat picture of a domed? root cellar.

Nepa Newsletter-Root Cellars were the everyman's refrigerator before the days of electricity. Learn what you can because those days could come again.

Winter Storage of Vegetables--Some thirty years ago, an international student from eastern Europe remarked to me that what she found most intriguing upon her first trip to the supermarket in the United States was the sight of bins upon bins of fresh fruits and vegetables.

Shy Bear Farm-As a child growing up on a farm, I remember the root cellar so well. Although it was damp and dark, the sight of row upon row of canned fruits and vegetables were a sight to behold. As an adult, I always wanted to have my own root cellar and see it full of garden produce to be savored in both sight and taste.

Garden.org-National Gardening Editors. How to Store Root Crops Here's how to have the produce from your fall garden last long and well in storage

The greenhouse is really part of a system that includes a ½ acre garden/orchard and a root cellar. Sunlight enters the greenhouse through 220 square feet of double- pane glass and warms eight 18 inch diameter, 5 foot tall, plastic tubes that hold 450 gallons of water and act as a sort of thermal shock absorber by storing heat during the day and giving it back during the night.

Potato Cellar-This old cellar is built into the side of a hill in Michigan.

"Celery may be harvested and stored directly in trenches that are dug for that purpose. Pull the celery plants and pack them upright in the trench. Cover with paper, boards and soil. They will root, bleach, tenderize and develop a nutty flavor when removed in late December."