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 ...
Lloyd Alter is Design Editor for Treehugger and teaches Sustainable Design at Ryerson University in Toronto. I like their mission statement: "Weltevree wants to contribute to a sustainable, social and ...
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. In ...
Make this root cellar by burying a new concrete septic tank into a hillside. Stow your surplus with these underground root cellar plans. This modern root cellar design turns a never-used septic tank ...
During this year's Salone del Mobile, Dutch Design firm Weltevree unveiled its own updated take on the root cellar. The prefabricated Groundfridge uses the earth's own insulating properties to keep ...
Preserving homegrown vegetables over the winter is a great way to eat sustainably. So, does this ancient winter root cellar ...
Before there were refrigerators, there were root cellars. The underground food storage facilities are essentially just really nice holes, but they do a terrific job of naturally keeping supplies at a ...
I once had the opportunity to "visit" a root cellar when I lived in West Virginia. It was built into a small hill and had lots of rock, dirt and sod as insulation. A root cellar is just that - a ...
In the southern American states, homesteaders, preppers, traditionalists, and people who are just plain frugal eventually learn a painful lesson: Root cellars really don't work in their warmer climate ...
Colleen Kimmett reports on food and farming for The Tyee. She co-authored the recently completed extensive series "Growing the Local Bounty: Reports from Farmlands in Flux, Ontario and BC." Find it ...
When the New York Times published a story in November 2008 about a renewed national interest in root cellars, the featured root cellarist was someone from Portland. It stands to reason. Here in... If ...