The great thing about cabbage, carrots and all the other crops, as described in the fundamentals of root cellaring, is all you need to store them for months is a cold, well-ventilated space. A spare ...

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 temperature ...

One occasionally sees, cut into the side of a hill or lying flat next to a home's foundation, a door in that ground that leads to a drab, potato-colored wonderland of vegetable storage: a root cellar.

When Marla MacLeod and her partner, both Halifax homeowners, moved in together, they had a hard time settling on whose house to live in. Only one, however, had a cinder-block root cellar. It was one ...