Dear Sun Spots: I have a small root cellar under my fairly old house. It’s dark and cool down there, with no light, a dirt floor and a few rocks. I think there might be some snakes down there.

A basement root cellar is convenient and useful. Traditionally, this cold room was an underground space built under or near the home, insulated by the ground and vented so cold air could flow in ...

Root cellars were usually built under half of a house, often with a stairway access to the kitchen and perhaps a second exit. Some root cellars included a shaft out to the farmstead s well for ...

Root cellars are an essential way to properly store those precious commodities to retain ... we laid out the house perimeter and decided a root cellar would be in a dugout hole under the house.

A root cellar is any space, underground, or partially underground, used for the storage of vegetables, fruits, nuts, or other foods. The first house I lived in, a four-room, two-story log cabin in ...