Reddit reviews Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables
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We found 7 Reddit comments about Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
I always wanted to build one and went so far as to buy a book on the subject. Look out world! In the ensuing 22 years I've made no measurable progress.
If you move the decimal over. This is about 1,000 in books...
(If I had to pick a few for 100 bucks: encyclopedia of country living, survival medicine, wilderness medicine, ball preservation, art of fermentation, a few mushroom and foraging books.)
Medical:
Where there is no doctor
Where there is no dentist
Emergency War Surgery
The survival medicine handbook
Auerbach’s Wilderness Medicine
Special Operations Medical Handbook
Food Production
Mini Farming
encyclopedia of country living
square foot gardening
Seed Saving
Storey’s Raising Rabbits
Meat Rabbits
Aquaponics Gardening: Step By Step
Storey’s Chicken Book
Storey Dairy Goat
Storey Meat Goat
Storey Ducks
Storey’s Bees
Beekeepers Bible
bio-integrated farm
soil and water engineering
Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation
Food Preservation and Cooking
Steve Rinella’s Large Game Processing
Steve Rinella’s Small Game
Ball Home Preservation
Charcuterie
Root Cellaring
Art of Natural Cheesemaking
Mastering Artesian Cheese Making
American Farmstead Cheesemaking
Joe Beef: Surviving Apocalypse
Wild Fermentation
Art of Fermentation
Nose to Tail
Artisan Sourdough
Designing Great Beers
The Joy of Home Distilling
Foraging
Southeast Foraging
Boletes
Mushrooms of Carolinas
Mushrooms of Southeastern United States
Mushrooms of the Gulf Coast
Tech
farm and workshop Welding
ultimate guide: plumbing
ultimate guide: wiring
ultimate guide: home repair
off grid solar
Woodworking
Timberframe Construction
Basic Lathework
How to Run A Lathe
Backyard Foundry
Sand Casting
Practical Casting
The Complete Metalsmith
Gears and Cutting Gears
Hardening Tempering and Heat Treatment
Machinery’s Handbook
How to Diagnose and Fix Everything Electronic
Electronics For Inventors
Basic Science
Chemistry
Organic Chem
Understanding Basic Chemistry Through Problem Solving
Ham Radio
AARL Antenna Book
General Class Manual
Tech Class Manual
MISC
Ray Mears Essential Bushcraft
Contact!
Nuclear War Survival Skills
The Knowledge: How to rebuild civilization in the aftermath of a cataclysm
Check out Eliot Coleman's books on winter gardening, particularly this one. He runs a market garden in Maine, and successfully grows and markets vegetables in the winter. I don't have a cold greenhouse yet, but I'm planning one.
If you grow a lot of veggies in the summer, you can do a lot of preserving in the fall to get you through. Beans are easy to dry. I have this book and have built a root cellar. And I've purchased a pressure canner and preserve all sorts of stuff.
Here are two books I consider essential references, both of which I would recommend to anyone:
Seed to Seed
Root cellaring
You need to preserve your seeds, and you need to preserve your harvests. Both are superb references for their respective topics.
I really love this book. It has dozens of descriptions of how to make different food cellars and how to regulate temperatures. It also describes how to winterize vegetables so you can harvest them all winter long.
https://www.amazon.com/Root-Cellaring-Natural-Storage-Vegetables/dp/0882667033/ref=pd_sbs_14_img_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=P44TJA94BRG89W40RSE2
I really want to convert a room in the basement into an insulated climate controlled room. It would be worth at least a trip to the library.
I also have The Permaculture Book of Ferment and Human Nutrition. It isn't the best at actual recipes, it just tends to rattle off a list of indigenous fermented foods. Wild Fermentation is much easier to follow.
Depends on what you want to store in them. Most vegetables have different humidity levels that they do better at. Same with temperature. In general though you want them more humid then the average house. You also have to keep various veg separate due to off gassing. Potatoes and apples will spoil really fast if kept near each other.
Mine is basically a tiny room in the corner of my basement. I Insulted the walls really well added poly to keep the moisture in and then vented it to the outside with a bathroom fan to quickly move the air out. I switch it on at night to cool things down if it's too warm. A few bucks in a temperature differential switch would automate it cooling down.
In the winter It never gets below 0C at the bottom although the outside air is rarely below -5C. The majority the time from october to it's between 3C and 10C. so I keep my beer in there and it's cold enough. The veg goes on shelves and moisture is added from dollar store aluminum pans filled with water. Most veg lasts from sept to march without serious issues. In the summer it's too warm.
here's the book to read if your interested.
http://www.amazon.com/Root-Cellaring-Natural-Storage-Vegetables/dp/0882667033/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1406350163&sr=8-1&keywords=root+cellaring
Agreed on NOT doing that! Wasted money and time ALL around only to die! Putting it above ground as suggested will only make you have to insulate it with cob or some other material, adding even more bullshit to deal with.
I would suggest cob IF you did above ground, but the layer you would need to insulate it would negate any benefit of having a steel skeleton (shipping container).
Heres a good book on root cellars that I stand by