SHTF Root Cellar Essential Tips on Building Your Natural Refrigerator and Food Storage: DIY Projects

By Parker Harris

Secrets to Building A SHTF Root Cellar – How To Build Your Own Natural Refrigerator Underground

Could you keep enough food preserved to feed you in case of an emergency.

Right now you probably only have enough food in your house to keep you and your family fed for a short period of time. I'm sure you wish you could keep more, but where could you possibly store it all. Your refrigerator only has so much space and, besides, it can only keep food preserved for a short period of time.

There is an option for you - you could build your very own root cellar. Root cellars were effectively the world's first refrigerators; they are natural structures that keep food preserved under the ground. Root cellars can keep your food at a temperature level just above freezing which means it will stay fresh for longer.

This means that you can preserve enough food to keep you and your family fed if anything bad happens.

Inside You Will Learn:

·         The Secrets To Planning Your Root Cellar

·         Where Your Root Cellar Should Be Built

·         How To Get The Right Materials For Your Root Cellar

·         How To Build Your Root Cellar From Start To Finish

·         How To Best Store Your Food in Your Root Cellar

·         Ventilation Tips and Tricks To Keep Food Well Preserved

·         What To Do If You Can't Get The Right Temperature

·         How To Ensure You Don't Contaminate Your Food

·         And Much More

Once you learn the secrets of building your very own root cellar, you'll wonder why you didn't start building one before. And once you have your own root cellar, you will wonder how you ever lived without one!

Don’t wait another minute. Learn the secrets and get started right away!

Don’t Delay. Download This Book Now.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Guava Books
• Release date: Jan 24, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386722496

Book preview

Introduction: Getting to the Root of It All!

So you want to learn how to build a root cellar? Well you have come to the right place! I would wager that you probably know a lot about root cellars already, if you have found this book, but let me give a little bit of information just in case you don't.

Root cellars were essentially the first refrigerators; there are records which indicate that 40,000 years ago native Australians buried their produce underground in order to preserve it. It is thought that the invention of the actual concept of a root cellar occurred in 17th century England. England, a land known for its frost, it should come as hardly a surprise that a country with such cool winters would end up expounding upon this concept!

The concept of the root cellar was also practiced and developed widely by colonists from the UK when they first arrived in North America. Many of these old root cellars can still be found over parts of the eastern sides of the United States and Canada. Root cellars from over 200 years ago can be found in the sleepy town of Elliston just off the coast of Newfoundland. Elliston is often called the root cellar capital of the world as it boasts over 135 root cellars.

You may wonder why root cellars are so popular and so widely used. One of the reasons is that they can keep fruits and vegetables going all year long. If you build a well-insulated root cellar it can keep the food inside 40 degrees cooler than the temperature outside in the summer.

During the winter root cellars can also provide benefits to food by keeping it at a temperature just above freezing. This preserves food for longer by slowing down the process of food rot and decay. This also makes a root cellar a much better place to store food than inside any house. This is because areas inside the home are always warmer than outside, making food stored in the home more likely to spoil than if it was outside.

You might have considered root cellars in the past. Or you may have been put off because you thought that it would be too much hard work, but it is actually not that difficult to make a root cellar. In the end you will find that the technique involved in creating a viable and sustainable root cellar are all based in common sense and

Reviews for SHTF Root Cellar Essential Tips on Building Your Natural Refrigerator and Food Storage

[Georgina Hnatiuk · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This book covered the basics to get me started without any hob-knob snobbery. It teaches not to strive for modern perfection, but teaches how to get the materials and equipment right, to manage ventilation, humidity, temperature and the like, for different types of food storage. While it did not cover traditional methods like cob walls, for example, it did teach how to build a cement wall cellars very rapidly and efficiently, with rebar installed by the individual if the cellar will be larger. Easy read. A good starter book. I feel like I learned the basics. Took me 2 hours to read.