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NATURAL REFRIGERATOR | The Root Cellar in My Floor
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2016
- When I built my house I noticed that one corner of the foundation was really deep, so I planned to make it into a root cellar. Now I use this space to keep the food I grow in the summer fresh through the winter, without refrigeration. It was a rather simple design feature, but it saves me a lot of energy in the long run and allows me to eat my harvest year round.
Our economy expends a huge amount of energy on refrigeration, not only to preserve food so that it can be shipped across the world and eaten fresh, but so that the food industry can recreate the climate conditions of a root cellar. The incredible diversity of flavors found in fermented foods, aged meats, wines, and cheeses were all developed around the world in the conditions found in local cellars. With the goal of preserving their harvest for more of the season, local artisans fermented, smoked, and salted foods before storing them in the cool natural conditions found several feet below the surface of the earth in a cellar. Without this need to preserve food in the absence of refrigeration, we would not have most of our expensive, highly-valued foods and flavors. For these amazing flavors we are indebted to our fossil fuel deprived ancestors.
There are many flavors being produced by the industrial food system, but they come from chemicals, preservatives, and artificial flavors. With the convenience of refrigeration, chemical preservatives, and artificial flavors the fossil fuel economy gives us, who needs fine wines, cheeses, charcuterie, or pickles? Wouldn't you rather eat cheetos and velveeta?
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Nice videos! Trying to learn & do some of the same myself! Thanks for posting! - country MO girl
Love it! And it comes with a built in diet and exercise program!
Great content
Very informative video. Subscribed as I would love to hear you insight on other similar topics. Thanks for taking the time to make the video.
Thanks for the comment. Glad you liked the video and subscribed.
Im taking it your stuck in the cellar door. You got halfway out and decided......."Lets just do it"
Yes I was stuck in that cellar for about 2 months. Good thing it's a root cellar.
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Great information!!! Thank you!!
Cool stuff, man.
I appreciate the great information and good points that you covered in this video, and i really like your small cellar. i am currently studying thermal mass and passive solar to incorporate into my cabin design in Missouri. will be off grid, so a root cellar will be a must! thank you.
Yours sounds like an exciting project and I'm glad this video was helpful. Good luck!
Hardcore Sustainable thank you!
My old farmhouse I'm getting I just found out it has one I'm so excited
Brother I know i do not need to tell you but be rdy for a hot summer. I am so thank full for my solar. I am doing the best i can with what I have. But for now it's beater than not. I do not feel so bad about running the AC when it's power is from the sun. Thanks for what you do keep up the good work. O I forgot to say My wife and love it when your videos pop up. God Bless.
+yankey4 Yeah, I think if you need AC to make life bearable, it's not as bad if it's all solar powered. I know some days I need it in order to function. Never been able to get used to really hot humid days. The pond is another option though. Thanks for the support.
We had a fridge in the floor when I was growing up in Alaska. I hated it as a kid. It scared me when I had to go down and get something. Lol!
They should have put a light in there so you wouldn't be dragged off by the monsters.
Do you think this would work if we were to build a cob house? Looking into that and would love to have a root cellar to store root veggies and canned jars.
Yes, I'm sure it would. There's a kitchen here that is mostly cob and they built a cob pantry where they store canned goods. They also have a bermed root cellar.
Do you think a root cellar could be used in the same way as a refrigerator to even store fresh meats and dairy for day to day usage? Will it stay cool enough in the summer to be used this way? I was thinking one could rig up a box in a track that you could pull up through the floor with a rope for quick access to things.
+h_wolfy This root cellar won't stay warm enough most of the year for reliably storing things like meat and dairy, but definitely could during the winter. For at least 4 or 5 months of the year, depending on the year, it will stay around refrigerator temperature. This is pretty convenient for storing fall harvested crops for eating over the winter, which is what I built it for. I've tried aging cheese in it, but it unfortunately doesn't stay the right temp for cheese for very long. It's either too warm or too cold and the period it is at the right temp is too short. I think some kind of track in there to make access easier could be useful. With the amount of humidity though, it would have to be stainless steel or plastic.
If you pack it with snow or ice on a cold winters morning it could last into the summer if it is far enough underground. That would be a freezer but it would be warmer nearer the entrance.
Martin Thompson the earth is a certain temp once you get a few feet under ground even 12 ft under ground is around 50-60 degrees Fahrenheit 365 24/7. This can be used for green houses with great results a kind of geothermal tube that goes 12 ft down if u can connect the tunnels it reallly work well! Easily done with a hand crank auger that u add an extension once so deep! Cheers
there are a few rare root cellars that somehow use underground water to cool their dairy. One woman described a deep well being used - the food was lowered into the well water which was very cold. another comment was from a guy who said something about a tiny stream of cold water going through his gramma's root cellar and food was kept in that. I wish there'd be videos of these things as it is hard to visualize.
But, I can vouch for deep well water being very cold in summer since I had a deep well.
What temperature should my crawl space be? My crawl space is about 500 sf. The only thing in it is my gas furnace.
To store most root crops you want to be above freezing to the mid 40s Fahrenheit. A gas furnace that isn't vented might make some things like potatoes sprout.
I'm wanting to dig a root cellar in my backyard. I live in Alberta Canada. How deep should I dig so my fruits and vegetables do not freeze. I tried storing my carrots and apples in my garage this past winter in buckets of sand. My garage gets very cold in the winter. Not the best storing place, but it's all I had. It didn't last long. My carrots dried out. My apples became rubbery and wrinkled. My potatoes were stored in a Rubbermaid box in the storage room downstairs, but the temperature did not stay the same either. My potatoes began to grow eyelets. So... this year I thought to save my produce I would dig a storage space outside. I'm needing to build a 4x8 shed in the backyard and thought I'd dig a space under there about 6x8 and 8 or 6 feet deep. Since it will be covered by the shed with a trap door on the floor will this be sufficient? The shed will not be heated. It can get to -20 up to -30 cold here in winter. What is the proper way to store potatoes, carrots, and apples to last through winter and spring? Is storing the carrots in the sand still ok if I keep the sand moist once in a while? Should I keep a bucket of water in there to keep the air moist or will it not need the air moisture? How do I store my apples properly... and my potatoes? I'm also wanting to store cabbage, onions, and other fruits and vegetables. I will grow what I can store, so a list of vegetables and fruits would be good to know Is it possible to keep blocks of ice in the storage through the summer, or is this a bad idea? .Finally, do I just leave the dirt on the wall or is it better to have them with concrete blocks? Any suggestions you have would be appreciated. Thanks!
If it's 6 feet deep and there is soil cover of a few feet on top it should be okay. Alternatively you can insulate the cover so it retains the earth's heat. There are a lot of resources out there on building a root cellar. I'd guess if you are just putting it under your shed the shed, if unheated, won't stop the cold from getting to the cellar. It has to have something to prevent the cold from coming in or to retain the earth's heat. Here in Missouri the traditional root cellar is at least 10 ft down with a stair to walk down and a hill mounded up over the whole celllar to give a protection of earth and retain heat. And we get at the coldest -20ºF.
You have a lot of questions. I'd recommend you get a book call Root Cellaring used online and refer to that. It has so many useful tips.
If it's a little warmer than freezing, its as cold as a very cold refrigerator? Is that correct?
yes that's correct. Fridges are usually between 32 and 40 F.
Hi man ,Dou you have to ventilate the cellar,🤠 france🍺,
Ideally you would ventilate a root cellar. I don't have any ventilation for mine.
I wonder what would be the temperature inside the root cellar if your living in tropics.
Root cellars don't really work in the tropics. They've always been a temperate region option. I the tropics you can have fresh food year round, so you don't need storage, or you can pickle, etc.
@@HardcoreSustainable idk... if you see dogs or maybe even pigs or other mammals digging a shallow hole to get to the cool earth, that is a sign or clue
Why is the door so small? He gains any weight and it's over.
Why is it assumed people will gain weight? Is this some kind of crack against Americans? ; ) If I can't fit in my root cellar I will probably have to give up living hardcore sustainable. You kind of have to be fit to survive living this way. Also, I don't actually need to get into the cellar to get stuff out of it. I just have to be able to fit my arms down into it and grab the handle of a bucket.
Gain weight..you don't eat. Pretty good weight management plan if you ask me.
Hello, do you need planning permission to build a root cellar?
I think it depends on where you live and if there are requirements for such a thing. We don't have any building codes so building a freestanding root cellar wouldn't require a permit, but I would guess you'd need to get permission to build one in most areas with zoning code.
floor could cave in if done wrong?
Btw I am selling my SMA micro grid tie inverter system it's 1440 watts and can do up to 3000 watts. I have to due to my town not letting us grid tie. I payed a lot for it. But I am willing to let it go to some one who will take care of it and love it for $1150 and they pay shipping. SO if you happen to know some one that is in need would you send them to me. I will be buying a outback 3524 and just going to off grid for most of my needs. Thanks brother. Ps hope i dd not upset you asking here if so plz feel free to remove this post.
+yankey4 I actually have an Outback 2524 that I want to sell because when I bought it I was told by the company it would grid tie and I could feed power into the grid. It does grid tie, but can't feed power into the grid, which is in my mind the only reason for being grid tied. Sounds like it's under the capacity you are looking for, but I might be interested in the inverter. I'd rather get an Outback, but I don't know much about SMA.
Hardcore Sustainable I will pm you with my phone # its a house line so can't do text maybe we can work things out for a swap/ trade.
Hardcore Sustainable Here is a link to the video i made. As you know I am asking a lot less than I did be for in the video. But that is to some one like you who I wish to try and help.. What your doing is what I would love to do andfor the time. this could be a win/win for each of us.
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NEVER HEARD OF ADDING WATER TO YOUR ROOT CELLAR
Yes, it keeps the humidity up in the winter when the cold air dries everything out quickly.
You are very handsome! I see you dont wear a ring........Is there a Mrs. Root Celler?
She left him for Mr. Big Ole Basement!
joe45474 she is buried in the root cellar
he is very good looking.
Definitely cool - Nice you planned it into the construction of your house. I would have made it deeper / taller for sure. Looks uncomfortable, and it is going to be Hell as you get older.
It was only meant to be like a little thing to use the space. For an official root cellar, I'd build it separate from the house. It's kind of like a little fridge. But I'll never get old. 😁
The problem I see is insect infestation. Unless the enclosure is air-tight like a refrigerator, it's going to be a problem.
During the hot parts of the year there are insects in there, mostly sow bugs, but not in winter. It's too cold for them.
Fridges are not healthy. The vegetables get less nutrition when kept in a fridge, so everyone should have a underground vegetable or food sellar. I once read about one that had an empty space of maybe 10 cm in the wall with planks of wood inside put inside not straight and then it was a freezer the whole summer, but I don't know where I read that.
It is terrible that the people on old farms don't use their root sellars but unhealthy fridges instead.
whats so unhealthy about a fridge? lol
I bet you make your boyfriend proud
Oh, you are such a clever troll. Still in 1980s grade school with your burns I see. Maybe someday you'll grow up and enter the 21st century.
You talk too much!
I think that's the first time anyone has ever told me that.
I would have said he could talk more. At least what he says is practical, useful, helpful and kind. World has a shortage of that imo.
you seriously could have made this video without making us watch you clear the snow off your solar panels...