LAKEWOOD, Ohio – Chris Tarr, Michael Tarr and Adam Erickson formed Branch Sauce Company in 2019 to sell the unique dipping sauce Chris created for their volleyball league picnics. A special blend of ...

Daniel Mercer never planned to dig anything underground when he first started gardening in his suburban Iowa backyard.

If you've had a good year, you might have been lucky enough to harvest more crops than you can eat. This means that you need somewhere to store them, which could be a root cellar. A root cellar is a ...

is a valuable guide to anyone considering adding a root cellar to their home. A root cellar is a cool, usually humid area that is used to store fruits, vegetables, nuts, etc., for weeks or months and ...

As long time homesteaders, we have used various versions of a root cellar to store our fruits and vegetables. Root cellars are an essential way to properly store those precious commodities to retain ...

As we head into November, this is the time when all the careful preparation of the winter root crops for storage pays off. In January, basement crop bins provide the closest thing to a basket full of ...

Some kind of food storage space is as important to the self reliant gardener as a hoe and shovel. But food storage is also where many people have trouble. While it’s true that millions of homes across ...

John Belding at Little Falls Farm in Harrison checks out vegetables stored in his farm's below-ground root cellar with his granddaughter. Credit: Courtesy of Edwin Remsberg Long before the age of ...

I have been asked many times this year by reporters and others if more and more folks are choosing to can their own food this growing season. Jarden Home Brands say they have seen an increase of 28 ...