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Traditional Root Cellar Interior Layout

Depiction of the interior vegetable storage space layout of a root cellar.

Pounds full of Potatoes

Ross Traverse of Torbay, Newfoundland, owns Traverse Gardens, where he grows and harvests many of his own vegetables. He has a walk-in cool room located in the basement […]

Walk-in Cool Room

Ross Traverse has a walk-in cool room in his house in Torbay, Newfoundland. Traverse built his walk-in cool room in the basement of his house in the early […]

Walk-in Cool Room

Ross Traverse has a walk-in cool room in his house in Torbay, Newfoundland. Traverse built his walk-in cool room in the basement of his house in the early […]

Bryant’s Cove Root Cellar

This root cellar is an example of a rarer type of root cellar found in Newfoundland, a dual entrance cellar. There are two ground level entry doors shown, […]

Jugglers Cove Root Cellar, Bay Roberts

The Jugglers Cove Root Cellar eight years after it was originally restored.

Stage Seven: Jugglers Cove Restoration

The final stage of this restoration was tidying up the external appearance of the cellar. This included painting the exterior of the shed and the shed door bright […]

Stage Six: Jugglers Cove Restoration

The second last step in this cellar restoration was to fully complete the construction of the wooden shed. At this point, the walls are finished, the clapboard siding […]

Stage Five: Jugglers Cove Restoration

The fifth stage in this restoration was completing the structural foundations for the shed. This included the walls and building the entire roof.

Stage Four: Jugglers Cove Restoration

After the floor is complete, the next step in restoring Jugglers Cove Root Cellar was to begin constructing the walls of the wooden shed.

Stage Three: Jugglers Cove 3 Restoration

Stage three included completing the construction of the wooden floor. The hatch door entrance is also completed during this step. It is located roughly in the middle of […]

Stage Two: Jugglers Cove Restoration

The second step to this root cellar restoration was to construct the ceiling of the root cellar and the floor of the wooden shed top house. The floor […]