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 ...
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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 ...
If you want to preserve fruits and vegetables as long as possible over winter, then home root cellaring is something you should know about. There are basic principles involved that lead to success, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
There are many ways to get back to your roots. Take the root cellar. It is both traditional and trendy, thanks to the locavore movement. “The next logical step after local food is some kind of at-home ...
The town of Elliston calls itself the root cellar capital of the world, and a project has a group of students repairing the structures around town. Jordan Hicks, the leader of the Green Team behind ...