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.

The once common root cellar, considered by some to be a creepy cousin to the basement, fell from popularity after the refrigerator proved to be a productive place to store produce. A number of ...

Amanda Blum is a freelancer who writes about smart home technology, gardening, and food preservation. Previously, Amanda has worked as a technology strategist specializing in problem solving and ...

Tom Faber, a Hancock local, focuses on growing and storing his own food throughout the year. He emphasizes the importance of proper storage methods, utilizing a root cellar and techniques like canning ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People often talk about “the good old days.” However, sometimes conditions were not that great back then. Several of the pictures ...