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 ...

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 ...

A few years ago, it was just a germ of an idea. The Deep Roots Food Hub (DRFH), a group in West Carleton committed to creating a more secure and sustainable food system, wanted to build a root cellar ...

A group of students have spent their summer repairing the root cellars around the community of Elliston. The town of Elliston calls itself the root cellar capital of the world, and a project has a ...

Elliston has earned its reputation as the root cellar capital of the world, but Twillingate could give it a run for the title. Some 232 root cellars have been counted so far in the Twillingate area, ...