A Roof Under Your Feet

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September/October 1987
By the Mother Earth News editors 
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If it's not possible to bury the freezer and you want to leave it outside, either mound soil around all four sides, or build an insulating wall of hay bales or leaf-stuffed bags around it. A freezer stored in a shed or garage can be insulated with glued-on sheets of foam insulation.

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One problem you might have is mold, which sometimes forms in closed, damp, unventilated places. To help keep your freezer mold-free, cut a hole high in one side, or even in the lid itself, and install a one-inch-diameter pipe, long enough to extend above the surrounding soil or insulation. Fasten a piece of screening over the open ("daylight") end so the mice don't consider it the door to a banquet hall. You can also line the bottom of the freezer with used furnace filters or racks of slatted wood or wire, to promote better air circulation.

Finally, take precautions to prevent children from getting trapped in the box; remove the lock from a freezer with a self-locking lid.

Root cellaring is an elegantly simple way to store the good food you've grown. And the price is right—especially when you can make creative use of an otherwise useless appliance.

— Mike and Nancy Bubel
 The Bubels are the authors of Root Cellaring: The Simple No-Processing Way to Store Fruits and Vegetables (Rodale Press, 1979, $12.95).

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