Refrigerator root cellar Winter update
We've got carrots for the
goats and apples for Anna in the refrigerator
root cellar.
Normally we'd have a small
heater to keep it from freezing on really cold days and nights, but
this El Nino Winter has yet to show its teeth.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Would it make sense to lay that on its back, and bury it more completely, use like a chest freezer? Just wondering...
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Deb
— Mon Dec 28 14:15:32 2015
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Horizontal vs. vertical
Deb --- A lot of people do that (or just use chest freezers in the ground in the first place). I'm pretty sure you'd get better insulation with the horizontal method, but it would also be harder to get food in and out. One of these days, we'll probably bury a freezer for the sake of comparison, but for now I'm lazy and like the easy door. 
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anna
— Mon Dec 28 15:29:05 2015
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