Make a Root Cellar - Part II
In this video, the founder of Aanandaa Permaculture Project, Manisha Lath Gupta shares her experience of making a root cellar as a part of her sustainable house. Root cellars are popular in western countries with temperate climates. When the external temperature is below freezing, a root cellar provides the perfect weather to store produce to tide over the winter months. With high humidity levels, these cellars created a refrigerator-like environment for storage.
However, in tropical and sub tropical climates like where Aanandaa is located, a root cellar behaves quite differently. IT helps to create an ambient temperature which is more stable, and does not fluctuate as much as the external atmospheric temperature.
The lit part of the cellar is just under our kitchen and cannot be sealed as it has the open stairs leading down to it. In this area, the air is a bit dry, and there is always some light. So we cannot store root vegetables like potatoes, turmeric, ginger, colocasia etc which tend to sprout in the light.
In the lit or dry cellar, we store onions and garlic by handing them in bunches on the wall from a metal wire. We also use the same wire to hang things to dry, like bay leaves or some flowers from our garden.
IN addition, this is the space to store cereals like wheat, oilseeds like mustard & groundnut and pulses like Urad, Lobiya, Moong, Masoor, Arhar etc..
We have also placed a deep freezer here, which we use to freeze excess vegetables form the previous season. These vegetables help us to tide over time periods of low productivity from the garden.
If you are interested in knowing more about how to build a cellar, or about how to make a sustainable house, you can book a SUstainable House tour on www.aanandaa.com/house-tour.
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Hindi main jyada samajh ata hai medam ji
Namaste Madam ji.. nice information on all videos.. Can you also make video that mentions necessary tools that are required in farm like power tiller , weeder, tractor , other hand tools etc....
GOOD 👍👍👍 WORK DEAR MANISHA
@revatimahilakisan
28 күн бұрын
Hindi me ni batae Kuchh samaj ni aaya Mere me directly comments ka option ni aa raha Tum bolo na mam se esi video ko hindi me bhi bole
@farmaanandaa
16 күн бұрын
Thanks 😊
Nice video.saving food rather the seed is very important.Just curious ,you donot have coconut trees in your farm.Is the climate or soil not suitable for it?
@farmaanandaa
28 күн бұрын
Climate is not suitable. We have a very cold winter
mam apni video main hindi caption bhi daal diya karo please
@farmaanandaa
Ай бұрын
Caption manually dalne padte hai, aur bahut mushkil hai mere software mein. Jald hi AI ke madad se kisi bhi bhasha ka caption jald aayega
@peepalpulse
29 күн бұрын
Nahi bhai aatumetic cepsan himdi nahi hota hai - aapko kepasan hindi me chahiye to aapko cepsan bale icon ko long press karna hai or fir aapo kapko aapni Bhasa chunne ka option aayega or apni language me cepsan ko badal sakte hai
@subratkumarmeher206
29 күн бұрын
She is a corporate farmer
What happend to sound quality mam? Pichle 2 videos se ye problem aa rhi hai
@farmaanandaa
28 күн бұрын
Yeh underground room mein recording theek nahin ho rahi. Echo aa rahi hai
@factically4972
28 күн бұрын
@@farmaanandaa mam if you require hindi voiceover for our ANANDAA videos, then i can help you in that. Will love to work with you for this amazing channel where i have learnt so much about farming... And i am doing it (voice-over) for my side income. I am a editor too (mobile editor) and working with a trading company named "GSK - Stock Market Temple" in Greater Noida I live in Mumbai. Pls let me know
in my childhood in village we used to have deep small rooms dug around the inner area of the house ., where grains used to be stored with Baalu ret ……. it used to stay fresh and when needed we just took out the portions and saperate the Baalu sand with sieve
@farmaanandaa
29 күн бұрын
Yes we have heard about those practices in our village too. Now with pukka houses and everyone wanting to look modern, we have lost those techniques and practices
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How do you process your pulses and grains after harvest?
@farmaanandaa
29 күн бұрын
We split some of them and others we store whole. Will make a video on that some day
@arpitsharma5247
29 күн бұрын
@@farmaanandaa sure. That would be very helpful. If possible kindly also show us the process as well
Cepsan se hindi kar late hai mem lekin ham cepsan pade ya video dekhe kya kya kare ek baar me😅
@farmaanandaa
29 күн бұрын
Problem toh genuine hai 😀
Very nice Manisha Ma'am I like all your videos very easy to understand 👍 we have farm in Gujarat can i have your contact number ? We live in Doha Qatar me and my husband both wants to meet you in person when we come to India
@farmaanandaa
29 күн бұрын
Pls visit www.aanandaa.com