How did our forebears from the Northeast and Midwest feed themselves in winter when there was no refrigeration or garden-fresh food? Actually, there was plenty of refrigeration right outside their ...

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. A number of ...

If you've had a good year, you might have been lucky enough to harvest more crops than you can eat. This means that you need somewhere to store them, which could be a root cellar. A root cellar is a ...