About Harvest & Home

What This Resource Is

Harvest & Home collects practical reference information on the storage of winter vegetables in cold rooms and root cellars. The focus is Canadian conditions: growing seasons, cellar traditions, and the climate range from Newfoundland to British Columbia.

Notes on this site draw from publicly available material published by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA), Saskatchewan Agriculture, and peer-reviewed horticultural literature. Where specific figures are used, their source is noted or linked. Where precise data is unavailable, ranges and qualitative descriptions are used instead of fabricated numbers.

Scope

The three articles on this site cover:

• Zone-by-zone temperature management inside cold rooms, including provincial design patterns
• Humidity setpoints and ethylene separation for mixed-produce cellars
• Long-keep vegetable varieties suited to Canadian growing conditions and storage

The scope does not include commercial refrigerated storage, canning, fermentation, or dehydration — those are distinct subject areas with different technical requirements.

On Accuracy

Storage temperature and humidity figures in published horticultural literature sometimes differ by a degree or two between sources, reflecting variation in measurement methodology, crop variety, and regional conditions. Where ranges appear in articles here, they represent the span across credible sources rather than a single precise value.

No statistics on this site are fabricated. No research is cited without a publicly accessible source. If a figure appears without a citation, it reflects general consensus across multiple well-established guides rather than a single specific claim.

Contact

Questions or corrections can be sent via the contact form on the homepage.

Harvest & Home
Ontario, Canada
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Last updated: May 22, 2026