Building A Root Cellar

“Here are three reasons for having a cellar…

You get to eat fresh food all winter. Canned, frozen, and dehydrated food is good, but fresh food tastes the best.

You don’t need to use any electricity or fuel to process and preserve your vegetables that go in the cellar.

You save a bunch of time. Just dig up your potatoes, carrots, and beets, put them in the cellar, and you’re done.

Root cellars are in the ground because root vegetables like potatoes, carrots, and beets need to stay Moist & Cool.

There are many types of root cellars. I’ll teach you how to build a simple cellar that works. We’ve built some that haven’t worked, but I don’t need to go into that story…”

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Self Sufficient Backyard

In all that time an electric wire has never been connected to our house. We haven’t gotten or paid an electricity bill in over 40 years, but we have all the electricity we want. We grow everything we need, here, in our small backyard. We also have a small medicinal garden for tough times. Read More Here...

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