Amish root cellar

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Lots of ideas and inspiration for root cellars - Root Cellar Gallery

DIY Off-Grid Homestead Root Cellar 🤝🛠️•On today episode we discuss our DIY homestead root cellar, their benefits and their history. And then we take a tour through our last seasons harvest that we’re...

Why Build a Root Cellar? A root cellar is a time-honored method for preserving your garden’s bounty without relying on refrigeration. By maintaining a cool, stable environment, you can store vegetables, fruits, and even some meats for extended periods. Choosing the Right Location When selecting a site for your root cellar, consider the following: **North-Facing

Hey there! If you're looking for a way to store your harvest or store-bought produce for an extended period of time, building a root cellar might be the perfect solution for you. A root cellar is a gr...

An “English-Ready” Swartzentruber Amish Home (15 Photos)

A root cellar is so incredibly useful. What if you don't have one? Here are some ideas on how to store produce or even make your own!

Building our root-cellar was easy! (Ha ha) Just follow these simple steps: 1) Dig a hole. Our hole was 10 feet deep, 30 feet long, and 15 f...

A root cellar is an age-old method of storing fruits, vegetables, and other perishable goods, allowing homesteaders and gardeners to enjoy their harvest year-round. Root cellars maintain a stable temperature and humidity, creating ideal conditions for preserving the freshness and quality of your produce. Building a root cellar does not have to be expensive or complicated.

Do you have a root cellar for storing your food? If so, it's important to make sure that you're not making any mistakes that could ruin your food. From forgotten produce to inadequate ventilation, there are a number of mistakes that could cause your food to spoil. In this article, we'll take a look at 9 root cellar mistakes that could ruin your food and how to avoid them.

Truck after truck slowly lumbered up our quarter mile driveway to our house, each delivering an integral component for our what will soon be our primary long-term food storage location. A Cement Tr…

The cob house is finally finished, and being used daily by Anatoly as his office. The photo below is the best I have of what all of the different elements look like together. The floor turned out really well! We used a purple clay and a Spanish red pigment to create a deep purple finish floor mix. Then we saturated the earthen floor with coats of linseed oil, and finished it with a beeswax polish. It feels very cool to the touch, which is refreshing for bare feet in a scorching Carolina…

A behind the scenes tour of our Dahlia tuber root cellar.

Root cellars are timelessly popular, eco friendly and cheap storage solutions that allow to keep food fresh for a few months

Keep your produce fresh this winter using these DIY root cellar methodsYour garden has come in and the bounty of it has been dispersed to family and friends. However, you still have more produce than you can consume. What to do? You can...

A basement root cellar is something many of us want. The good news is you can create a highly functional system in your home. Here's how.

Relish, pickles, canned fruits & other Amish canned goods The Amish are prolific canners - essential when you have a large family and big garden to match. Amish can all varieties of fruits and vegetables, as well as meats, soups and stews, and other foods. Below you'll find canning recipes for some classic Amish &

It’s about time I post about the root cellar. As I mentioned in an earlier post, there’s no way any family of three can grow this much produce without figuring out some way to store it …