[redpoll]

I just built a root cellar - not a bad thing to have out here in the Alaskan Bush. I have a feeling that we’ll be eating a lot of cabbage, potatoes, carrots, and turnips in the upcoming years.

[Eska]

Hey redpoll, where you at? We're in Eagle, where the Yukon comes in from Canada.

We've been putting in 400 lb seed tatoes for 7-8 years; yukon golds & iditareds. I always have 1000 lb in basement, they stay good till march; need a root cellar too; wife won't let me dig up cement in basement. The Indians help me dig them and I give alot away to friends actually. We always put up 75 gal bags of carotts, grow cabbage & brocc.

Wife and I have our teaching certs, forever get offers from urban Ak; can't bring ourselves to leave here. Ya know, livin is cheap here, and quite safe; hard to leave now the kids are grown and off to school.

[Nervous Tick]

>> I have a feeling that we’ll be eating a lot of cabbage, potatoes, carrots, and turnips in the upcoming years.

Shoot me now.

[familyop]

"I just built a root cellar - not a bad thing to have out here in the Alaskan Bush. I have a feeling that we’ll be eating a lot of cabbage, potatoes, carrots, and turnips in the upcoming years."

That's good idea. ;-) Be really good to the Inuit folks, too. I hear that they bring in most of the meat up there.

I live on the central Rockies and away from the nearest electric lines. We like to experiment with low-cost greenhouses among other things (about 9 months of cold weather per year at this elevation with high winds for about three months...snows in July sometimes). ...no whiteouts, yet...only little snows most days now, and there are lots of sun days each year.