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Get the Ventilation Right
Basement root cellar ventilation The easiest option for building a root cellar is to section off a part of the basement (or maybe even the whole basement, if you live in an old farmhouse) for produce storage. Old dirt floor basements without heat are great for maintaining proper temperature and humidity levels. Select an area…
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Root Veggies Store Well In A Cellar
How to Store Vegetables There are many different ways that a root cellar can be used and items that can be placed inside – from produce to medicine. Root vegetables like: carrots, turnips, beets, parsnips, potatoes, and other root vegetables are what are best stored in a root cellar. So the next time you find a…
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How to Prepare for Hard Times in 5 Steps
People have a way of procrastinating, even about really important stuff. Problems very small and very far away on the horizon quickly grow in magnitude the closer they get. Suddenly, what appeared to be about as threatening as a tiny newt has taken on positively draconian proportions when it is staring down at you, breathing…
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Home Improvement Projects For Less Than $1K
Everyone has an eye on those stimulus checks. If you think you will have to sell your home some really good ideas to save money or for that matter, maybe make a little money when you do so, making some upgrades might be just the thing you need to do. With that in mind here…
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Thoughts On Preserving Root Vegetables
Use a Root Cellar to Store Your Root Vegetables A root cellar (american english) or earth cellar (british english) is a structure, usually underground or partially underground, used for storage of vegetables , fruits , nuts , or other foods. Its name reflects the traditional focus on root crops stored in an underground cellar , which…
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Winter Indoor Humidity Level In Your House – What’s Best?
Have you noticed how dry it gets inside your house during the winter? Do you know what’s the best indoor humidity level during the winter? During winter months, the colder it gets outside, the drier the air gets inside! To solve that problem get a humidifier! Why does it get so dry in the winter?…
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Tiny Steps Add Up
People say, “What is the sense of our small effort?” They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time–. Dorothy Day I think the great social activist Dorothy Day meant this in the context of changing the world. It reminds me of the story of an…
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Dangers In Flipping Real Estate
If you have recently purchased some real estate for investment purposes, you are in good company. Recent reports suggest that as many as 25% of these purchases are made by those who plan on using the property for investment purposes only. If you hope to “flip” the property there are 4 things you must be…
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Safety Is The First Priority In Your Root Cellar
FOOD SAFETY AND PRESERVATION National center for home food preservation website at http://nchfp.Uga.Edu/site includes science-based information on home food preservation, publications and links to other extension sites. The center was established with funding from the cooperative state research, education and extension service, u. S. Department of agriculture (csrees-usda) to address food safety concerns for those…
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Some Fun Off-road Riding
There are various fun dirt paths accessible off of the Coyote Creek trail, and today was a nice day to check them out. I rode for a total of about two hours, maybe an hour of that on unpaved or gravel trails. These are good at my skill level, not too technical. One of the…