One occasionally sees, cut into the side of a hill or lying flat next to a home's foundation, a door in that ground that leads to a drab, potato-colored wonderland of vegetable storage: a root cellar.

A root cellar is a homesteader's secret weapon during their mission to full self-sufficiency. It provides peace of mind in the face of potential power outages to safely store all that precious produce ...

Throughout history, food preservation techniques have responded to the pressures of climate. In the cool fishing villages of the north, whether seaside or inland, people salted and dried the day’s ...