Find Your Roots – in the Root Cellar: All About Cold Storage

Did you get a great harvest and wonder how to store it all?  Are you thinking of buying those big 50 lb. bags of carrots, potatoes, apples or other produce at the market when the price is low?

In this 90 minute webinar, learn most every thing you need to know about cold storing your vegetables in a root cellar or other modified methods of cold storage at home.  At least three different methods will be discussed, including a newly built root cellar in an older home.

Presenters include David Wimberly, Cam Farnell, and Bob Cervelli who each cold store vegetables and fruits at home.

Bill Morrow from Halifax Makerspace will join us to describe the control system he built for David’s root cellar.  Bill designed and installed a wireless system to use computer and smartphone to control humidifiers and air circulation fans, and to measure temperature inside and outside, plus inside humidity. The fans are in air intake and air outlet vent tubing to control temperature.  Bill has written this up into an Instructable, now posted at:  https://www.instructables.com/HVAC-for-Root-Cellar/   What Bill designed is new and innovative.  It will be of great help in getting better storage conditions.   Bill will discuss the system as well as ways to do some of this more simply.

Join us for this 90 minute Zoom webinar on Thursday, November 26th from 7:00 to 8:30 pm.  The workshop will take place over Zoom, and details for access will be sent out to attendees at the time of registration.

This event is free (donations appreciated!) and requires registration via our eventbrite listing.

We will be conducting this event on Zoom with livestreaming to Facebook, and we will send you the Zoom link via Eventbrite email when you register.