Root Cellaring 101

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Root cellaring is a foot preservation technique that doesn’t actually require a root cellar! It all comes down to determining what temperatures different crops need to stay fresh. Create those conditions, and you’re root cellaring (even if you don’t have underground storage). Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3OptdUg Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/42sYATm Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3SrIJ2P EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/42rRYou Connect With Melissa Norris: Melissa K. Norris helps hundreds of thousands of people each month raise their own food and create a homemade and homegrown kitchen, home, garden and barnyard through her website, popular Pioneering Today Podcast, the Pioneering Today Academy and her books. She is a co-founder of the Modern Homesteading Conference as well as owner of Norris Farmstead. Melissa is a 5th generation homesteader and lives with her husband and two kids in their own little house in the big woods in the foothills of the North Cascade Mountains. Pioneering Today Academy Everything Worth Preserving book Blog YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There is this idea've been obsessed with. It is this idea of kind of going down
0:15.7	at the earth, grabbing some things that you've grown from the prior season and then
0:19.7	bringing them back up to ground level and cooking them with your family and your friends.
0:24.0	Just storing that stuff.
0:25.3	Something about it is so satisfying to me, this idea of having a root seller.
0:29.1	We have Melissa Norris back on the show, author of everything worth preserving the book, and many, many more things
0:35.8	you'll hear about at the end of this show.
0:37.8	But Melissa, I don't know about you, but something about that visual even is very pleasing to me.
0:44.4	Like I don't want to stop thinking about it.
0:46.5	I'm with you.
0:47.1	And I think really like it goes back to our like primitive self,
0:51.3	ancestral self, like whatever.
0:53.7	And it's a form of security, right?
0:57.7	Like, and I think that's very primal,
0:59.7	and I think that we all have that to some degree,
1:02.2	just depending on how tapped in we are to it and so yeah I mean I grew up like the little house on the prairie books my mom read those to me at night when I was a little girl I read the books before I even knew there was a show because we didn't really get television when I was little. And there's just something about that that just is like at the base of the base of humans. Like just knowing that you've got this food it's there it's safe and even just like you probably
1:28.1	experience this in the garden when it's growing but also if you do preserve and you've got like food on a shelf even or out in the garden like there's something that you just kind of want to stand and admire it and be like, oh, like this is a thing of beauty. I think that's completely right. I mean I I'll be the first to say that
1:48.3	although I've yet to do this type of content I am obsessed with those pantry tour videos and I know I've seen some of yours I've seen
1:56.2	there's many folks on the internet who've done them and yeah there's something about it
2:00.4	it's like a it's almost like staring at a fire like we're all somehow into that and
2:06.1	we don't really know why but we're just kind of into it so let's talk I mean I don't
2:10.4	have one yet and it's actually I wouldn't call it a problem but I'm in a climate
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