Boyer believes the structure was built about 1840, at the same time as a log house and other farm buildings. ... adding that all the old root and ground cellars were dug by hand.

In a strictly technical sense, Cynthia Worley is not transforming her basement into a time machine. Yet what's going on this harvest season beneath her Harlem brownstone on 122nd Street, at Adam ...

History Colorado announced it had issued $5,085,026 to 38 historic preservation projects across the state Thursday via the State Historical Fund. This included roughly $250,000 toward efforts to ...

They say that necessity is the mother of invention -- and John Fisher-Merritt has surely discovered the key. A longtime farmer, Fisher-Merritt has made a living off sustainable farming on his 200 ...

At the Hazzard Free Farm in Pecatonica, Ill., farmer Andy Hazzard says last year, she converted an old 10-foot-deep cistern with a concrete cap into a root cellar where she stored 800 pounds of ...

Using a precast 6-foot x 6-foot x 10-foot tank and some materials I had on hand made the job much easier than it would have been, and I ended up with a root cellar that has maintained a stable ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) - To help poor Afghani villagers make money on potatoes instead of opium poppies, Idaho farmer Pat Rowe used a little old technology: root cellars. Rowe, 68, whose family raises t… ...

Dear Sun Spots: I have a small root cellar under my fairly old house. It’s dark and cool down there, with no light, a dirt floor and a few rocks. I think there might be some snakes down there.

Instead, I chose to use the leftover SIPs to build an above-ground root cellar. Easy Root Cellar Walls and Roof with SIPs. Using my Kubota tractor with a 1-foot bucket, I dug a 14-by-10-foot-wide ...

DANBURY — Visiting Happy Trails Farm is a bit like stepping back into the Old West. Owners Ed and Lucy Prybylski have turned his grandparents’ old root cellar into what they call Miss Kitty ...

A root cellar is any space, underground, or partially underground, used for the storage of vegetables, fruits, nuts, or other foods. The first house I lived in, a four-room, two-story log cabin in ...