Entry # 14 – Readiness
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Entry # 13 – Building a Root Cellar Part 4 – Ready to use
A root cellar is an amazing thing. Our cellar maintains a constant temperature of 40 to 50 degrees year round – day and night, while holding a humidity level of approximately 95%. For roots [...]
Entry #12- Building a Root Cellar Part 3 – Worn out, used up, rejected old tires – the perfect functional thing
If you have been following my entries this past week you know that I have been sharing about my experience building root cellars. To catch up you might check out the last two entries [...]
Entry #11 – Building a Root Cellar Part 2 – Getting started
Putting up the sign at Timber Butte Ranch. When I dug the hole for the first root cellar (Better known as the Hole) on the old ranch I used a pick and shovel. The ground was [...]
Entry #10 – Building a Root Cellar Part 1 – Revisiting the “Hole”
The "Hole" on the old ranch. When Nancy and I moved onto the original old ranch after we were married in the early 70’s (See about us) one of the first projects [...]
Entry #6 – Six dump truck loads of cow manure – A first house warming gift.
Here is our garden, growing in the manure. As summer came to an end our other new neighbors, Craig and Joan Krosh dropped by to announce that our friend Al Gibron would be helping [...]
