Root Cellaring

Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables
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Root Cellaring by Nancy and Mike Bubel is a practical guide for enthusiasts of natural food preservation. It explores techniques for using root cellars to store fruits and vegetables, helping readers keep their home-grown produce fresh through the winter months. The book provides advice on constructing or adapting storage spaces and choosing the best crops for long-term storage.
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You might enjoy this book if you're interested in sustainable living and preserving food without refrigeration. Perfect for gardening enthusiasts and those who appreciate traditional storage techniques, it offers practical advice on designing and utilising root cellars effectively.

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Root Cellaring

Tells how to use root cellaring, and gives instruction on both improvising a small root cellar and constructing a true root cellar.

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Stretch the resources of your small backyard garden further than ever before, without devoting hundreds of hours to canning! This informative and inspiring guide shows you not only how to construct your own root cellar, but how to best use the earth’s naturally cool, stable temperature as an energy-saving way to store nearly 100 varieties of perishable fruits and vegetables.

Root Cellaring by Nancy Bubel and Mike Bubel provides detailed instructions and practical advice on building and maintaining a root cellar to ensure you can keep your harvest fresh for longer.

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Root Cellaring by Nancy and Mike Bubel is lauded as a comprehensive guide on the topic, highly regarded by sources such as Backwoods Home Magazine and The Province. It is considered a classic manual offering detailed instructions for storing fruits and vegetables efficiently and simply. The Maine Organic Farmer Gardener praises it for its practical, hands-on approach, deeming it the essential book for root cellaring enthusiasts.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780882667034

Publisher: Workman Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 09 January 1991

Country: United States

Imprint: Storey Publishing LLC

Illustration: 6 x 9

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 16.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 226.0mm

Weight: 420g

Pages: 320

About the Author

Mike Bubel co-authored the classic best-selling guide Root Cellaring with his wife, Nancy. They were avid gardeners for many years in Philadelphia and then on their farm in Wellsville, Pennsylvania. Nancy Bubel, co-author of the classic best-selling guide, Root Cellaring, was a gardening columnist for Country Journal magazine and wrote for Mother Earth News, Organic Gardening, Horticulture, Family Circle, Woman s Day and New Shelter magazines. She was a member of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society and the Society for Economic Botany, and a life member of both the Seed Savers Exchange and the Friends of the Trees Society.

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