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.

Find root cellar alternatives to store more, waste less, and enjoy fresh garden vegetables for months – without digging a traditional root cellar. When I built my eco-cabin several years ago, I fully ...

Storing vegetables like onions covered with peat moss or sand in plastic totes is one way to replicate root cellar conditions. Credit: Courtesy of Edwin Remsberg Root cellars help to preserve certain ...