Until fruits and vegetables were available year-round at the grocery store, the root cellar played a vital role in daily life. Today, backyard gardeners (and those who buy in bulk at peak season) are ...

Our root-cellar-in-a-box overflows with potatoes. Without a cellar, what’s an approachable way to store my root crops through winter? Build a root vegetable storage box for a small-scale way to ...

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 ...

Hundreds of pounds, in fact, under many sheets and a few cardboard boxes. Fingerling potatoes, that is, which are currently drying and curing in a corner of the basement. Protected from the light, ...

If you've ever marveled at the impressively long shelf life of potatoes, you're not alone. Potatoes are storage champions—they can last for weeks or even months under the right conditions. But what ...

According to the man behind Kitchen Tips Online, whose amassed more than 226,000 followers on YouTube, there's a brilliant (albeit quirky) trick for keeping spuds fresh. Whilst his initial suggestion ...

I had a banner year for root crops this year, and storage is a problem. For the past few years I had been storing root crops in a spare fridge, or in an old 25-gallon crock with a plywood lid in my ...