Underground Root Cellar Plans. The perfect location for a root cellar is nestled into an existing soil bank in a well-drained location 10 to 20 yards from your house.

A root cellar is a homesteader’s secret weapon during their mission to full self-sufficiency. It provides peace of mind in the face of potential power outages to safely store all that precious ...

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 ...

Storing crops in a root cellar is a great way to preserve the harvest. But if you don't have one already, don't despair. It's fairly easy to make a space to store vegetables at the proper ...

Creating a cellar for food storage is an ideal method for many reasons: an underground chamber doesn’t see much temperature fluctuation, and during the colder months the conditions within will ...

Buckley said root cellar building plans are available in the Morton County Extension Office. "We've had people call and ask for plans," she said. "They may say 1965 on them, ...

The idea of a root cellar may seem antiquated, but as Steve Maxwell and Jennifer MacKenzie point out, “The true test of an idea is how durable it is, and root clears have proven to be a ...