Downs the road a ways is a potato warehouse and sorting facility. If you pick them up there, they are $0.20 a pound. We make use of a root cellar to buy in season and in bulk. I got three growing kids and the dimes add up.
Our house did not have a root cellar when we bought it but it had the perfect spot for one and an afternoon and fifty dollars was all I needed to build one. I know an old man in town who sells food grade barrels, most of them originally held Tabasco sauce, saw off the top and some scrap plywood for a lid, and you are set. The spuds last more than a year in storage and we have one less thing to pick up at the grocery store.
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| 400# in the cellar. |
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| The last of last year's potatoes, still firm and tasty. |
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| They come in the house about 20# at a time. |
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