Welcome to the New Root Cellars Forum!

Root cellars are a traditional, off-grid form of food storage. This is the forum where we discuss how and where to build them, how to maintain them, foods we can store, and challenges we may face. Ideas, questions, encouragement, and advice welcome!

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Great idea, Leigh.

Thank you for doing this as I know a lot of effort went into making the forum.

Thank you! We are in the planning stages of ours, such as site choice Would love to hear what others have experienced and learn.

Howdy all! Long time reader, first time poster. I’m pleased to report positive performance of my buried 50 gallon plastic drums. It’s 19 F outside and 44 F inside the bottom of the drum that contains onions, potatoes, beets and squash. Will report back how January goes. We are in Iowa. Buried up to the rim in a topsoil mounded left over from pond escavation years ago. This is message is solar powered and hedge-apple heated. 🤠

I have seen a few old ones in Australia, they are underground with just a gabled roof showing above the ground just like your photo.
We get temperatures of over 40 deg. C here so I dont know how good they were in the summer.

Here is a new variation of them https://www.groundfridge.com/