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Earth basement working well!

We moved into a VERY old farmhouse here in the country, and it has a dug earth basement, with stacked stone walls. There are wood tables do…

Started by Elizabeth Delaney

2 Feb 16, 2011
Reply by Elizabeth Delaney

Cold Box

After failing to build our house this year, Brigid and I were left with a fair number of root vegetables left over from this year's harvest…

Started by Mark Norton

13 Feb 2, 2011
Reply by Mark Norton

Advice for "testing" a root cellar?

Hi folks, I'm looking for advice on how to test the conditions of our new root cellar.  Since this is the first year, I don't know what the…

Started by Alison F

1 Nov 9, 2010
Reply by Mark Norton

Sprouting veggies

Hi! I'm a complete novice to cellaring. I put some carrots and beets in sand in metal garbage cans. Both the beets and carrots are now spro…

Started by Olivia Hall

0 Oct 3, 2010

Storing Onions

We'd like to store a bunch of Copras this winter, what is our best bet to make sure they last as long as possible? I know not to store them…

Started by Laura Woinoski

0 Sep 8, 2010

Apple Storage Results

We neighbors at White Hawk did an apple storage experiment this past fall/winter/spring on storing apples overwinter. Three families partic…

Started by Laura Woinoski

4 Jun 22, 2010
Reply by Gail Blake

Creating a root cellar?

I'm thinking about converting a corner of my basement into a root cellar, and I'm feeling a bit clueless (even though I am reading Bubel's…

Started by Alison F

16 May 6, 2010
Reply by crowjoy

Storing Apples?

Hi all! An apple storage question. We are going to be experimenting with burying aluminum garbage cans (one 10 gal and one 6 gal) of apples…

Started by Laura Woinoski

1 Oct 27, 2009
Reply by Katie Quinn-Jacobs

Carrots

Hi all I am pulling up the last of our summer carrots and want to try cellaring them. Last year I just stored them in a bucket with holes d…

Started by Sharon Berger

7 Jul 31, 2009
Reply by Valerie McMartin

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