I am in the process of writing and producing a university peer-reviewed publication on root cellars for the Intermountain West. And I thought it would be fitting and interesting to share a few of the ...

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 ...

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 hell when ...

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 ...

For generations, people in Alaska’s far-north whaling villages have relied on hand-built ice cellars dug deep into the permafrost to age their subsistence food to perfection and keep it cold ...