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.

Construct your own DIY root cellar plans for effective cold storage of potatoes, onions, and even certain fruits and leafy greens. Root cellars are as useful today as ever. In fact, root cellars in ...

Tucked in a grassy ridge cutting across the Small Family CSA Farm in La Farge, Wis., is a refrigerator so efficient it requires not a single watt of electricity, yet it can keep some crops chilly for ...