A basement root cellar is convenient and useful. Traditionally, this cold room was an underground space built under or near the ... load-bearing wall for a house. You can extend stud spacing ...

Use these plans to construct your own DIY root cellar. Cold storage is the best way to store potatoes and onions, and even certain fruit and leafy greens! Root cellars are as useful today as ever.

When I was growing up in Ukraine, every time I stayed at my grandmother’s house, we would go into her root cellar to pick something ... everything that grows under the sun.

Root cellars were usually built under half of a house, often with a stairway access to the kitchen and perhaps a second exit. Some root cellars included a shaft out to the farmstead s well for ...

Do you have a root cellar? Root cellars are older than ... carrots and cabbage to name a few. Our house has a hole under the kitchen floor. The original purpose was to provide access to some ...

Dead fridges and freezers can find new lives as backyard root cellars, and are certainly spacious enough to hold a lot, but this method can also be a lot of work: most articles on how to create ...