For maximum potato longevity, skip the plastic bag and reach for brown paper. Store your potatoes in a cool (50-60°F), dark ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 once had the opportunity to "visit" a root cellar when I lived in West Virginia. It was built into a small hill and had lots of rock, dirt and sod as insulation. A root cellar is just that - a ...

Last week, I wrote briefly about root cellars and how they seem to have become a thing of the past. To my delight I received emails from a few local people saying they were using a root cellar. One ...