Never apologize for a storage room not being “pretty”, most of us who understand the purpose of these rooms, would LOVE to have one!! They are for a real purpose and you are putting yours to excellent use. I dream of having such a space. Thanks for sharing.

I think a lot of people who now homestead make it really complicated. my family has been preserving for as long as I can remember. Can be as simple or as complicated as you want it to be. We had a cellar that we kept all our goods in. We lived in an old farm house. We canned Green beans, corn, tomatoes, peas, lima beans, pickles, pears, apple sauce, peaches, jams and maybe some other things. We had shelves full of these goods. we froze broccoli, blue berries, strawberries, raspberries, We had lots of different types of potatoes, and winter squash in our root cellar. Our food lasted us all winter and spring. We had lots of different kinds of dried beans. We ground our own flour and made our own bread in our old bread mill. We lived a very simple life and ate simple foods.

Being a herbalist and having around 250-300 herbs, I have found putting bay leaves in containers keeps food moths away. I’ve learned the hard way. Having a shop where my customers expect their herbs sans webs and icky things, I’ve learned what works. This was fun and informative.

Seeing people’s cellars and pantries makes me so excited and happy! I have a very tiny space and dream of having storage like this one day.

Thousand Hills Beef Farms where your tallow comes from, started just down the road from where I live in MN. Really good people who practice regenerative farming. Very good products and the only beef I buy at the store because I know where it came from and how it was raised. I found out recently that quite a few of the major retailers are mixing the beef they sell with imported beef! Support american farmers. especially local ones, and keep the economy stronger.

hearing the top pop on one of your ferments while you're in the cold room is so incredibly satisfying to hear, the entire purpose of your cold storage room! This is wonderful inspiration and I cannot wait to get our underground storage cellar completed!

Lovely tour of your root cellar Shaye, thanks. Yes! focusing on preserving what you know your family will eat is so important. Seeing all the food that one has grown and stored up is one of the best feelings ever and makes us just want to lift our hands and exclaim, "HALLELUJAH!!"

You need your own show! So much knowledge that you're sharing, thank you!

Definitely agree that one should preserve stuff that they eat. My storage looks absolutely different but everyone has its preferences. .

Yay! I love all of your videos but this is by far my favourite format. Keep up all the great, hard work!

I noticed you have some of those beautiful giant anchor hocking jars with glass lids. They work great for keeping mice and moths out of bulk items. I am always surprised that you have so many bulk items stored in the original paper bags from Azure. If I did that there would be bugs and rodents in everything! That said, you food storage is very inspiring. I would have never realized that my basement has the perfect cold room for food storage until I saw the first pantry tour on this chanel. Thanks for sharing.

We store very much like you - the cellar is smaller, but we have a number of cooler outbuildings so I spread things through there too. Thanks for sharing.

I just love ❤️ it all … watching you brings me such joy .. thank you 🙏

This was such a lovely and helpful video! My house was built in 1905 and we have a basement that could be a root cellar except it floods; what wonderful fantasies your video has planted in me for my own root cellar!

I have a unfinished basement that I store some food. I have some shelves I store my canning. I can things like tomato sauce, salsa fermented pickles that I can. I also have 150 lbs of potatoes down there. Last year my potatoes, onions and squash lasted from September till March. I like your idea of making a cold room very clever. I got a lot out of this video thanks for sharing. Louise

I love these videos so much 😭❤ so glad you're back!!

Hey Shaye, love the cellar. Wish we could have one here in Texas. There is so much limestone it would cost a ton to blast the rock out. I'm a retired chef 28 years and the food grade containers are the best. We love the fermented food and have lot's in our pantry. This year we made a good amount of vinegar. Great video, God Bless, Mike

I love love love your cellar videos! The management ideas and VISION have been so important for me! I'd be thrilled for updates mid winter even ❤ Thank you for inspiring me over the years ❤

I live in SW Idaho and have pantry moths to deal with. I researched containers that will keep them out(or in, so they don’t infest anything else) and found that clamp top glass jars are basically the only thing that will work. They will chew through plastic bags and get into screw top jars and plastic tubs and other containers. I got a lot of the clamp top jars from thrift stores.

Very cool spaces! Love how they're thought out with so much intention. Do you ever see developing a little workspace next to the freeze dryer? As in take stuff out, jar it up, leave it down there on the shelf.

I love your videos glad your back. I hope you had a wonderful vacation. I have shelves in the basement for my backup preps Fellow youtuber gardener etc over here trying to help people grow there own food. Love and hugs from Pennsylvania Sincerly Melody

@theelliothomestead I eliminated a 20 year mice/rat problem here on our farm. Mix equal parts of jiffy corn muffin mix and baking soda. The rats can not burp or pass gas and it kills them. I also put 2 tsp of sugar in the mix to encourage them to eat it. This won't harm your other animals. I cut a hole in a container that only the rats/mice can go in and put that inside another container that only the rats/mice can go in. I hope this helps.

I absolutely love your heart of Thanksgiving.

A perfect root cellar video that has inspired me greatly.

Just lovely v looking forward to using my freeze dryer this year!

Black widows will multiply so quickly. Don’t feel bad for keeping your family safe. Sometimes you gotta spray. Thank you for sharing your cellar! Lots of good info.

I would LOVE to see an Azure haul! I always enjoy seeing those type videos because it helps me with my orders. ❤️

Loved this video Shaye!

Great video - thank you.Have you already talked about fermented shredded beats? I do like beets but think fermented might be a good idea for me. Just never thought of them before.

You gave me a lot of idea for when I get a root cellar, thank you!

I really enjoyed this Shaye. As a new homesteader it's very helpful to see what works for you and what storage veggies you grow. thanks!

Welcome back. So happy to see you again and I hope you had a great vacation. Love you all from Canada.

I recall fond memories of Stew building the walk-in Fridge bye His design🐦. You've done Very well filling it up beautifully 😊. When Ju Ju was very young you two would go down and She would count Onions xxz🍁🎃. JO JO IN VT 😆💕

I've noticed some black widows around our place. They seem to love rock. When we turned rocks over they are often under the rock.

Nice to have a root cellar. I have a cold room. Our house is a old church which we moved onto acreage. We put a basement u deer it and so the basement under the 8x8 bell tower became my cold room. During the winter it holds at 40F pretty well all the time unless we get long periods of really cold temperatures like 30 below. Anyways, get video 🇨🇦🌷

It would be wonderful to have cellars. They are hard to find here in the South. I have a question...can you include how you use your fermented veggies in another video? I've just begun fermenting, and really don't know how to include them in my meals other than as a side veggie. Thanks for considering this!

Can you write a blog post listing your favorite storage varieties of various veggies? It’s hard to find that info on seed packets.

Thank you for this wonderful tour . I am hoping to do the "frig" set up in my basement. Does that room also have a gravel floor?

enjoyed your video and I so agree with you on preserving or canning only what you are really going to eat! Tallow - do you use tallow for all your cooking or will you also use oil? I didn't realize you could buy tallow, I am in Calgary Alberta Canada and must investigate this!

I will take function over pretty when it comes to storage areas.

I've been dreaming for a Food Storage Cellar for a while.. ❤❤❤❤

I just love your cellar!!!

Hi, thank you for showing your cellar and sharing what you've learned. How do you store and keep raw milk long term?

I operate an authentic 1856 root cellar with original shelving. It has a door in the cellar to help keep it at a specific temperature separate from the rest of the cellar, and tubing to the outside, to keep the temperature lower, which you block off when it's warmer or too cold. You shouldn't have to use a/c in what you are calling a root cellar.

Baking soda for mice sprinkle everywhere they walk. They will lick their feet and the gasses it creates in their bodies will kill them. Baking soda is safe for children and pets. Easy to clean up and reapply, also fairly inexpensive. Living in the country this has been extremely successful for us.

I’m jealous of you having a root cellar like that. We have a storage room in our downstairs level (walkout basement) but it’s not good enough to be a root cellar. I did notice you have a lot of canned foods that have the rings still on. We aren’t supposed to store them with the rings on. It could create a false seal and your food!

I'm interested in how it is having your coolbot vent into an interior room. I've only ever used one that vented outside. Does it cause excess humidity in your basement? Is there a noise factor when the air conditioner is running? any other drawbacks?

Oh my goodness I ordered these knives, I love them, they are so awesome!!! So sharp and incredibly well made!! The boxes are so lovely too. Thanks for this tip!!

thanks for sharing! I would like to hear you and your family do the 30 facts challenge about you all. 🙂

No more duck confit? Thanks for sharing your tips and thoughts on the root cellar!

Question from another home farmer around orchard lands...how do you keep the pesticides out of your soil living surrounded by orchards?

Thx for sharing a very neat/ cool space

This is so fascinating! ❤

The walla walla onions ans shallots freeze dry well. Dice or ring. And they are awesome.

Hi, Shaye...please tell me what garlic is best to grow and store long term. I've tried several different ones and I'm getting frustrated as they don't last that long. Thank you!

Such a great video!

If you have any wine's with cork they must stay on there side always so the cork doesn't dry out.

Do you use the fat from your calf harvest? I make a LOT of tallow from the kidney fat when we have a cow processed. And lard from hog harvest. I get free fat from the processors as well because most of the people where I live don’t want it. I make utility soap and cold processed soap with whatever I’m not going to use for cooking or baking.

With the freeze dryer, you should never lose another high-sugar-content onion or shallot!

I’m going to try and expand my food storage area. Goals for the homestead

I love these kinds of videos 😍 I definitely have cellar-envy haha

How do you keep the mice out?? Just started the video, so not sure if you will address this

If you have a dehydrator why also freeze dry? Don't they serve the same purpose? Is one faster or more efficient?

Where does the a/c unit drain? Just down on the gravel?

What kind of freeze dryer do you have? Is there a link?

Do you can any of your meats or do you freeze them all?

Would you mind sharing those variety that do store well please?

Help - I'm sorry I thought I heard that a link would be here to demonstrate honey sweetened fruit jams. Where did I miss that?

What long-term storage onions do you grow?

gotta watch previous cellar videos and see how much she has grown

Basement envy from FL 😍

Love it!

HELLO , I WAS WONDERING IF YOU WOULD SHARE YOUR RECIPE FOR YOUR GINGER BEETS THAT SOUNDS WONDERFUL SINCE I LOVE BOTH BEETS AND GINGER I WOULD LUKE TO CANN THAT MYSELF ALSO PLEASE???

Can you Please tell me about The beets you mentioned?

What books do you use or would recommend for fermenting? Thank you!

Is there a recipe for your tomatillo salsa?

have you ever thought about hanging your onions and garlic in mesh onion bags? they store better.

Great storage system

What animals do you have on the farm now?

Absolutely beautiful! I would love to have a cellar, glad you are able to!❤❤🙏🙏xxoo

How do you find the heat produced by your freeze dryer effects the temperatures in the cellar?

Hi! I’ve been a long time viewer and you’ve inspired me in many ways! I have a few questions if you don’t mind. 1. Do you have any recommendations for finding a local raw milk source? 2. Do you find there is any cost savings when buying raw milk and making your own dairy products? 3. I render my own leaf lard and I love how neutral-tasting it is. Is tallow neutral flavored? Do you use it in baking? 4. Do you have the AC regulated by a thermostat? Does it have to run a LOT? Thank you for taking the time to post these informative videos and for helping us learn. ❤

That cellar is just gorgeous. 😍

You inspired me to organize my pantry today❤

Did you say you were in Italy?

I'm curious if you've ever tried growing grains.

I miss having a lower level so badly. We moved from the Midwest to the south and unfortunately root cellars/basements are a thing of the past. I don't know where to store my harvests.

great video, thanks. you mentioned mice, my house was a mice haven….it took forever to get rid of them but they got into everything. the worst was when i opened a silverware drawer and there was one😩how do you keep them from going upstairs? have a great Sicily trip🥰🥰🥰

When the **** hits the fan and it is coming... Look good is all that meat in your freezer when you no longer have electricity? Are you even bothering to prepare for that inevitability? Or do you have your head in the sand? Your freezer is a wonderful tool and I believe in free dried food for long term storage I do... But when it hits the fan what will we do with our free to try food if we don't have the water to rehydrate it? True you can still eat it it is freeze dried stay and get the nutrients but it's not very good. I believe you need to have a well balanced storage program that includes multiple methodologies a food preparation. I would recommend that you also expand you're a canning efforts to also start canning meats and other forms of protein. I would also suggest getting away from the Mason jars and getting an actual canning machine to use the metal cans which are more durable especially if there is an earthquake and they block light I like Mason jars I would highly suggest you give a lot more deeper thought to your long term storage and it's actually what it is that you are trying to protect yourself and your family from because right now it seems you're just prepping to prep. And don't forget that when it hits the fan there will be other people looking for food who had no forethought to prep themselves and so will be interested in taking what you have so you should also give serious consideration to your security. does what I'm saying see move it over the top for you? We will see just how over the top you think it is when it hits the fan!

ALSO YOUR OIL PACKED TOMATOES RECIPE TOO PLEASE???

I like listening to her speaking, idk if it's her voice or just her 😊

how many people live there that's a lot of food

I have all their knives! I even bought several sets for my son !

Shea, Dr. Killigan's pantry moth sticky traps work quite well, in my experience. It attracts the males, they stick to it, and the females die out without the males.

Did I miss the pickle recipe?

You do an absolutely fantastic job with your family, meals, animals. I do see one concerning thing - for safety of the seal, canned goods should have rings removed and they should not be stacked on top of each other. Even a layer of cardboard on the bottom jars and then add another layer of jars. This is a safety concern - saying this as a Mom. I'm not trying to be negative - hope it's not taken that way.

Why have you chosen tol leave rings on your jars?

ugh pantry moths! All food is now in fridge, freezer, air tight containers and still they are here. came in bird seed 3 years ago and this is the great grandchildren now going in the sticky traps

Can you make a video on how you store certain foods such as potatoes? It is my first year and I feel like I am already not doing great 😅

also saw your kitchen aid mixer down there , I have to lug mine from the utility room to the kitchen, I can't imagine up and down stairs.:(