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 ...

Root cellars are an essential way to properly store those precious commodities to retain freshness and nutrients for the longer term.

Storage of winter vegetables might not seem to be a compelling issue if you don’t have a root cellar. To be sure, few of us do — at least not in the sense of a cavern dug into the earth or ...

Root cellars have long been the province of Midwestern grandmothers, back-to-the-landers and committed survivalists.

Without a cellar, what's an approachable way I can put up my root crops through winter? No problem. This small-scale and simple approach will preserve your harvest through the winter.

Many people who don’t have a root cellar manage to wall off a corner of a regular basement that they can maintain at the ideal temperature of 33 degrees by opening and closing a small cellar ...

At Food Farm in northern Minnesota, Janaki Fisher-Merritt is getting back to his roots. This second-generation farmer is putting a modern twist on an old-fashioned idea that could help scale up the ...

Traditional root cellars, which were dark, unheated, dirt floor constructions in homes or unattached buildings, are a thing of the past.

The Root Cellar B-L is what you might call a crossover town cafe. Paper napkins, bare tables and a menu that promises "food you grew up with" all let you know that it aims to be a downhome kind of ...

"If I look at the old homes around here, some cellars are still standing. There are impressions on the ground from the ones ...