People often talk about “the good old days.” However, sometimes conditions were not that great back then. Several of the pictures I’m sharing in this article are from the period of 1896 to 1898 and ...

One occasionally sees, cut into the side of a hill or lying flat next to a home's foundation, a door in that ground that leads to a drab, potato-colored wonderland of vegetable storage: a root cellar.

A root cellar is a homesteader's secret weapon during their mission to full self-sufficiency. It provides peace of mind in the face of potential power outages to safely store all that precious produce ...