Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables

I bought this with very little to no knowledge on building or starting a root cellar. After just the first two chapters I feel so much more informed than I thought I ever could. The author educated the reader not only on building the cellar, but what season is best to start growing things in to put in the cellar. I feel I learned so much on the proper way to grow and store items from my garden, as well as feeling confident in how long they will keep for. I’m excited to get started! A definite recommend from me!

I'll preface my brief comments that my interest is in root cellar construction, and I bought both this and Julie Fryer's book. BOTH ARE SUPERB!! You will not go wrong with either of them, and I HIGHLY recommend, if you have some spare change in your pockets, to get both! OK, if I were pressed to recommend only one, I would recommend this one . . . but as soon as I say that, Julie's is excellent, too. The Bubel is an all-around complete root cellaring book that also includes many chapters on construction and everything you will possibly ever need/want to know about root cellaring; the Fryer book is a complete construction book that also includes all aspects of root cellaring. You see what I mean? :) They are both excellent! Get both. I promise you that you will not regret it! Happy root cellaring!

I wasn't expecting the great information I got from this book. I have a dirt floor cellar in my house and feel very lucky to have it, especially after reading this book. I have MANY options of how to use that for storage of food and this book has shown me how to maximize that cellar. I have also learned the storage conditions of each vegetable from this book. Excellent book if you are using a root cellar or want to have one (many ways with specific instructions for all kinds, not just if you have a dirt floor cellar). This book sat unread for months on my bookshelf as I thought it would be dull reading. Once I started, I read it in three days, hard to put down.

If you live on an acreage or farm this would be very useful information and the quality of the pages and cover are good!

Good info for my off grid plan

Very good book. Ive been growing, freezing, canning and dehydrating my food for years. Ive also been stashing a modest harvest of potatoes in a cool dry closet with ok results but they never lasted more than 3 or 4 months and they always ended up a little shriveled. I expanded my garden another 2000 square feet so I finally decided to try root cellering. This book covers everything you need to do it right. For example I didnt know squash had to be kept in a dry warm environment as oposed to potatoes in a cold humid environment to last through spring. I would have placed them all in one place in the root cellar and probably ended up with rotten squash but excellent potatoes.

The first good thing about this book is that it starts at the beginning - planning what to plant and when as a part of looking ahead to storing your produce. She talks about what foods can be stored and for how long. Later in the book there is a lot of information on specifics temperature and humidity requirements for storing each food type. There is first information on assessing what areas of your home may already be good for natural storage and then information on how you can enhance those areas (unheated basement, stairway to attic, garage, etc.). Next there is a lot of good information on actually building a root cellar. I don't see how anyone could build one without this kind of resource. Here in Vermont there is a lot of activity around buying or growing good quality food and natural cold storage is a natural extension of this interest. Refrigerators are great - but being to buy or grow bushels of apples and squash and cabbages and keep them crisp into the winter/spring is a challenge that I want to pursue. I highly recommend this book to any one who shares this interest.

This book is great for anyone thinking about putting in a root cellar, it includes just about everything you could possibly want to know and lots of different ways to build one or think about putting one in even under a porch or crawl space, and includes recipes and how to get your produce prepared for storage and how to get the most out of it. more than i expected very thorough treatment of the topic. and well worth it. great for the prepper's library

one of my best books on homesteading. GREat piece of knowledge, you've got to have this book if you are planning to do this, incredible amount of information which would probably save you a LOT of time and money, not to mention rotten veggie...

Lots of great information, and ideas in this book. Just started reading a week ago and is hard to put down. Great book.

Very useful information!

Haven't read it - just browsed it quickly and it has alot of info in it for different methods. Once I get the time, I'll be reading it and figuring out what I can do

Prompt delivery and well packaged. Item itself very interesting and has been well received (gift); full of old ways of prolonging storage of vegetables/ food. For those interested in topic a good book. Felt illustrations could have been a bit better - but can't fault amount of information.