Refrigerator root cellar update 2010
The refrigerator
root cellar is being over taken by weeds due to its low position on
the "list of things to fix before winter".
Digging it out and installing
a roof over the top will most likely be a winter project.
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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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You might want to consider an OLD tried and true method for a root cellar. With rammed earth or earth bags you could make a barrel roofed cellar that would last a very long time. There are many materials you could used to make it, just make sure you put drainage tiles around the perimeter to keep water away from the walls. The materials range from used bricks, home made bricks, rammed earth or civa bricks, earth bags and probably many more. The basics of this method are on the net, but you need to have reasonably clean clay dirt, sand, and either portland cement or lime, and a tamper to pound the earth tight inside a form. Some of the oldest buildings in Europe are rammed earth with some homes existing over 500 years. A little food for thought here.