Cabbage is one of those ingredients that quietly saves the day when you need simple and budget friendly meals. It’s easy to ...

Building root cellars in basements is a safe way to preserve your harvest. Although not the least labor intensive it will keep your fruits and vegetables fresh for years to come. Of all the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 produce. But root cellars ...

Everyone should have a hideout — an unexpected subterranean spot for when the sun is too bright, the sky is too cloudy, or the world has become a bit too much to bear. You might take a good book along ...

Back when I was a boy in the 1950's, my grandfather had a huge garden and saved food for use all winter. My grandmother canned tomatoes and made pickles, but Grampy was in charge of storing potatoes, ...

BISMARCK - Minnie Geiger remembers the time when it was necessary to have a root cellar. "I watch these young girls now go to the store. We didn't have to go to town," she said. "It'd be a cold day in ...

A neighbor of mine recently built a beautiful energy efficient home, complete with a breathtaking view of the Lehigh Valley, a wood/coal/ oil furnace, a heat pump, weathered cedar siding, a backup ...