Beyond the Root Cellar: The Market Gardener’s Guide to Growing and Storing Vegetables for Off-Season Sales and Food Security

Knapp, who established a winter storage farm in Alaska, offers readers this creative guide that demonstrates how growers can select, harvest, store, and market vegetables during the off-season. His book combines advice and hands-on experience from Knapp and other storage farmers. The resource is ideal to assist both novices and seasoned growers interested in storage farming. The book includes recommendations for practical tools and strategies, including selecting crops for storage, understanding how to plan for storage farming and its associated costs, determining and utilizing the best techniques for crop harvesting and storage, and choosing methods to manage storage environments. The book profiles nine storage farms and 18 storage varieties. The vivid photography highlights various storage methods and facilities.