There are other styles of root cellar storage, but this blog is all about making under-the-steps basement cold rooms work. What is the usual problem with these things? Too cold in winter and too ...

To make a nifty, mini root cellar right in the garden, simply bury a bucket and cover it with a straw bale. For sweet, crisp carrots all winter, we always left them in the ground under a thick ...

Another option is to dig a pit in a shady area – essentially a mini-root cellar. Because of the thermal properties of soil, the deeper you go below the surface, the more temperatures resemble that of ...

Root cellars are used based on the fact that they ... the cost to run a 90-watt mini-fridge in Florida for one month is about $3.08 — presumably a little less for a fridge set to maintain ...

The Groundfridge is a high-tech hole in the ground. The modern-day root cellar needs a fair-sized garden to accommodate it, but you’ll need a fair-sized garden to use it anyway, because the ...

The Worleys, like a number of other Americans, have made the seemingly anachronistic choice to turn their basement into a root cellar. While Cynthia Worley's brownstone basement stash won't feed ...

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 delicious for our next meal. She would open the creaky door ...