The ruins of a 100-year-old root cellar can turn up some less than appetizing rubble. In the case of the Moon-Randolph Homestead just north of Missoula, that meant dozens of what the current caretaker ...

A refrigerator in spring and summer, a safe-from-freezing pantry in fall and winter, and a man-made cave dug into a hillside and sealed shut with thick double doors … root cellars were all of those ...

A neighbor of mine recently built a beautiful energy efficient home, complete with a breathtaking view of the Lehigh Valley, a wood/coal/ oil furnace, a heat pump, weathered cedar siding, a backup ...