A modified basement cold room should maintain a winter temperature of 0 to 5 C and humidity levels of about 80 per cent. Ventilation is important to prevent mould. Eliminating light will stop potatoes ...

Today’s basements are too hot for preserves and vegetables 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 ...

I had a banner year for root crops this year, and storage is a problem. For the past few years I had been storing root crops in a spare fridge, or in an old 25-gallon crock with a plywood lid in my ...

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 ...

They tuck them into the cold corners of urban basements. They put them in drafty cupboards in their downtown apartments. Some even dig them into their suburban backyards. More than half a century ...

Knapp, who runs Offbeet Farm in Fairbanks, Alaska, debuts with a comprehensive manual on how to harvest, process, and store beets, kale, potatoes, and several other hardy vegetables so they can be ...