I once had the opportunity to "visit" a root cellar when I lived in West Virginia. It was built into a small hill and had lots of rock, dirt and sod as insulation. A root cellar is just that - a ...

Before there were refrigerators, there were root cellars. The underground food storage facilities are essentially just really nice holes, but they do a terrific job of naturally keeping supplies at a ...

Storage of winter vegetables might not seem to be a compelling issue if you don’t have a root cellar. To be sure, few of us do — at least not in the sense of a cavern dug into the earth or into a ...

During this year's Salone del Mobile, Dutch Design firm Weltevree unveiled its own updated take on the root cellar. The prefabricated Groundfridge uses the earth's own insulating properties to keep ...

"Color added" read the label on the bag of oranges. My wife examined another bag in the store's produce section. Then another. "Color added" they all read. It looked like we might not be eating any ...

It’s the perfect design for growing your own uber-local produce. The Groundfridge is a high-tech hole in the ground. The modern-day root cellar needs a fair-sized garden to accommodate it, but you’ll ...

A refrigerator in spring and summer, a safe-from-freezing pantry in fall and winter, and a man-made cave dug into a hillside and sealed shut with thick double doors … root cellars were all of those ...

BISMARCK - Minnie Geiger remembers the time when it was necessary to have a root cellar. "I watch these young girls now go to the store. We didn't have to go to town," she said. "It'd be a cold day in ...

Minnie Geiger remembers the time when it was necessary to have a root cellar. “I watch these young girls now go to the store. We didn’t have to go to town,” she said. “It’d be a cold day in hell when ...

Louisville's local food chain is about to lose a crucial link. The Root Cellar is closing by year's end unless a buyer can be found. Over the last five years, proprietor Ron Smith has grown The Root ...