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Little Harbour Root Cellar

Little Harbour Root Cellar in Twillingate was built using salvaged materials. It was built by or for Harold Pardy, circa 1938, and is currently owned by the Pardy […]

Harbour Grace Root Cellar

This root cellar is owned by the Ryan family in Harbour Grace, Conception Bay. It has a stone and concrete foundation with a wooden roof. Iron railroad tracks […]

French’s Cove Root Cellar, Bay Roberts

Dry-stacked rock root cellar foundations in French’s Cove, Bay Roberts.

Mobile Root Cellar

This hillside root cellar has a stone wall interior and a deep, 3.5 metre, entrance into the cellar. Built in circa 1860 by Scottish immigrant, John Kennedy, the […]

Cupids Cellar

The stacked stone cellar at Cupids Cove Plantation, constructed circa 1610.

Potato Garden, Trinity

Potato garden in flower, Trinity, Trinity Bay, with the Hiscock House Provincial Historic Site in the background.

Lamswood Root Cellar Potato Pounds

Potatoes stored in pounds inside Bill Lamswood’s root cellar in Portugal Cove-St. Phillips. This root cellar was originally built in the 1850s by Richard Squires and is still in […]

Dan Rubin Interview

March 9, 2017 – Dale Jarvis interviews Dan Rubin, the owner and operator of Perfectly Perennial and creator of the sheltered greenhouse design. Dan tells us about the […]

Sarah Ferber Interview 2

August 1, 2011 – Julie Pomeroy and Crystal Braye interview Sarah Ferber, an associate of the Food Security Network. Sarah Ferber tells us what the “Root Cellars Rock” […]

Sarah Ferber Interview 1

August 1, 2011 – Julie Pomeroy and Crystal Braye interview Sarah Ferber from the Food Security Network of Newfoundland and Labrador about the use of cold room root […]

Andrew Boland of Outer Cove

June 17, 2011 – Julie Pomeroy and Crystal Braye ask Andrew Boland what a root cellar is. Interviewer: Can you tell me what a root cellar is? Andrew […]

Ross Traverse of Torbay, Newfoundland

June 22, 2011 – Julie Pomeroy interviews Ross Traverse about the use of root cellars and how specific items have different storage methods. Ross Traverse: In Newfoundland, the […]