As long time homesteaders, we have used various versions of a root cellar to store our fruits and vegetables. Root cellars are an essential way to properly store those precious commodities to retain ...

Root Cellar, a local food market that serves Columbia, Jefferson City and Ashland, has received a large three-year grant through the Local Food System Collaboration by the United States Department of ...

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 ...

Dilu Nlando counts boxes while people load them with food at the Root Cellar food pantry in Portland. The Root Cellar is operating under a new model where the people receiving food at the pantry do ...

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When I was growing up, most rural homes had a pantry, cold room or root cellar, if not all three. Back in the 1950s trips to the neighborhood grocer were fewer and far between since most people “put ...