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A Custom-Made Root Cellar

Root cellars are as practical today as they were in the past. Learn how to build your own root cellar.

Read about constructing a root cellar--complete with a shed over the top!

In this online exclusive you'll also find tips for storing your produce and other items underground. The article "Putting Down Roots," which appeared in the September/October 2008 issue of Hobby Farms, offers even more advice.

Read a related article: "Produce Bound Underground" by Rick Gush.

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A Custom-Made Root Cellar

Reader Comments

This was good but a bit more information for the "do-it-yourselfer" would be handy. I would rather build it from scratch myself.

Frank, Newmarket, ON
Posted: 6/18/2010 4:19:15 AM

This was great. Want my husband to read this also as this will solve our problem since our new home on the farm will not have a basement.

Melanie, Newmarket, ON
Posted: 6/15/2010 4:44:31 AM

Does anyone have the full version of this article somewhere? The one on the web is incomplete. It seems to be missing at least the first page, if not more

Eric, Grand Rapids, MI
Posted: 4/16/2010 12:27:40 PM

railroad ties make for a nasty odor of creosote or worse substances in every thing they surround. You may want to reconsider using railroad ties unless you can cover them with an impermeable vapor barrier.

Kevin, Menomonie, WI
Posted: 7/25/2009 8:52:06 AM

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