Making a Root Cellar
Three generations of my family, my Great Grandparents, my Grandparents, and my parents each used an earthen root cellar to store a plethora of garden produce, canned preserves, cured meats that lasted a full year or more until the next harvest. Prior to the introduction of electricity in rural America, root cellars were the means of storing food long before the refrigerator and freezer were common household appliances. Traditionally, the root cellar (or cold room) was an underground space built…