Tag Archive: root cellar

Does Your Retreat Need Two – or Even Three – Root Cellars?

This lovely large root cellar dates back to the mid 1800s and is underneath a farmhouse in Lancaster, PA. Many people add a root cellar to their retreat. This is good, but if you…
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Building with Earthbags: An Adventure in Root Cellar Construction

By Steve Nicolini We have finally completed our 4 years-and-running earthbags building project. We wanted a natural cold storage for all of the root crops we grow here in the western foothills of Washington’s Cascade Mountain range. This is a…
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