The Root Cellar is owned by partners Walker Claridge and Kimberly Griffin, who took a $75,000 loan to open the Missouri products store in an old doughnut shop on the west edge of downtown Columbia.

Combining the concept of a root cellar with a greenhouse, BioCellar reuses one of the most valuable parts of a building, its foundation, as the base for a new greenhouse.

A root cellar is any space, underground, or partially underground, used for the storage of vegetables, fruits, nuts, or other foods. The first house I lived in, a four-room, two-story log cabin in ...

It’s like a root cellar combined with a standard greenhouse, so it stays cool in the summer and warmer in the winter. I won the grant, then got the town’s permission to build the greenhouse on ...

In 2014 we built an earthbag and balecob/strawbale root cellar on our off-grid urban homestead. We’ve been using it since then and last year decided to put a green roof on it as well.