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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.

Want a Root Crop Recipe or two?

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A Custom-Made Root Cellar

Reader Comments

Would love to see plans for an above ground root cellar for those of us that can't put in an underground one.

Karen, Kennebunk, ME
Posted: 12/5/2011 6:13:33 PM

Would like more instructions

Tanya, Kirkfield, ON
Posted: 1/9/2011 6:49:34 AM

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

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