Structure for storing vegetables, fruits, nuts or other foods
For the poem by the same name, see Root Cellar (poem).
Interior of a large Wyoming root cellar with crops
A root cellar (American and Canadian English), fruit cellar (Mid-Western American English) or earth cellar (British English) is a structure, usually underground[1] or partially underground,[1] used for storage of vegetables, fruits, nuts, or other foods. Its name reflects the traditional focus on root crops stored in an underground cellar, which is still often true; but the scope is wider, as a wide variety of foods can be stored for weeks to months, depending on the crop and conditions,[1] and the structure may not always be underground.[1]
Root cellaring has been vitally important in various eras and places for winter food supply. Although present-day food distribution systems and refrigeration have rendered root cellars unnecessary for many people, they remain important for those who value self-sufficiency, whether by economic necessity or by choice and for personal satisfaction. Thus, they are popular among diverse audiences, including gardeners, organic farmers, DIY fans, homesteaders, anyone seeking some emergency preparedness (most extensively, preppers), subsistence farmers, and enthusiasts of local food, slow food, heirloom plants, and traditional culture.
A rootcellar (American and Canadian English), fruit cellar (Mid-Western American English) or earth cellar (British English) is a structure, usually underground...
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The RootCellar is a children's historical novel by Janet Lunn that is set in the 1980s, although much of the action takes place in the 1860s. It follows...
Wessells RootCellar is a small brick structure near Hallwood, Accomack County, Virginia. The rootcellar was built sometime after 1768 by William Vessells...
prairie turnip) Smallanthus sonchifolius (yacón) Many root vegetables keep well in rootcellars, lasting several months. This is one way of storing food...
She and Fone Bone, therefore, enter a Ghost Circle, and thence the rootcellar of a farmer's family, where they obtain apples. Here, they hear voices...
just 38 months. On October 7, 2021, a new search was conducted in the rootcellar of a home formerly occupied by David Pennington, one of the deceased...
A storm shelter or storm cellar is a type of underground bunker designed to protect the occupants from violent severe weather, particularly tornadoes....
first two being The RootCellar and Shadow in Hawthorn Bay. Having progressed backward from the American Civil War in The RootCellar, another few decades...
stocks kept in a cold pantry. Vegetables could be brought up from the rootcellar in smaller amounts and stored in the cold pantry until ready to use....
of rootcellars and iceboxes. Rural people often did their own ice cutting, whereas town and city dwellers often relied on the ice trade. Today, root cellaring...
protection in the event of different emergencies: areas of refuge, storm cellars (as protection from tornadoes and other kinds of severe weather), panic...
into the side of a land bank, or wedged under a log or tree root. Food storage Rootcellar Wikimedia Commons has media related to Category:Larders. Look...
from Texas. When her home was attacked by Comanches, she hid in the rootcellar and accidentally suffocated her child while trying to prevent him from...
solely immediately. It is both a traditional domestic skill (mainly as rootcellaring) and, in the form of food logistics, an important industrial and commercial...
Burning Ground, Madame Zee Janet Lunn 1928 2017 children's literature The RootCellar, The Hollow Tree Laura Lush 1959 poet, short story writer Hometown, Going...
if temperatures are low. The radish can also be kept for months in a rootcellar or be stored in the fridge for up to three weeks at 0–5 °C (32–41 °F)...
well. Springhouses thus often also served as pumphouses, milkhouses and rootcellars. The Tomahawk Spring spring house at Tomahawk, West Virginia, was listed...
days when he was in Pokrovskoye. Building a makeshift chapel in Yefim's rootcellar—Rasputin was still living within his father's household at the time—the...
shotgun and an axe. All of the bodies were then stored in the newly dug rootcellar by the house. The eldest Hassell son, Alton, was threshing wheat in Clovis...
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