The great thing about cabbage, carrots and all the other crops, as described in the fundamentals of root cellaring, is all you need to store them for months is a cold, well-ventilated space. A spare ...

One occasionally sees, cut into the side of a hill or lying flat next to a home's foundation, a door in that ground that leads to a drab, potato-colored wonderland of vegetable storage: a root cellar.

To make a nifty, mini root cellar right in the garden, simply bury a bucket and cover it with a straw bale. For sweet, crisp carrots all winter, we always left them in the ground under a thick layer ...

The once common root cellar, considered by some to be a creepy cousin to the basement, fell from popularity after the refrigerator proved to be a productive place to store produce. But root cellars ...