Adding a small root cellar to your existing home will provide you with fresh veggies throughout the winter and spring. Irma calls the design provided here a root closet, because it’s roughly the size of a bedroom room closet (the interior space is 3½’ x 7½’). At less than 27 square feet, it will [...]

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Root cellars, as Irma’s son Mylar points out, are cool. So, we’ll take that as reason #1. Here’s another 10 good reasons to have a root cellar.

Root cellars are a passive cooling system that makes use of the earth’s geothermal capacity. So no added energy is needed to maintain them.
They’re versatile. If you [...]

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