Rural Gardening: Making Chevre, 1 by darius

darius wrote:
What a lovely old building, lots of potential!

Shelves should withstand humidity. The ones in mine are wonky but they have been there for ages; they're probably wormy chestnut. They only go from the middle up, and my building is short like yours. My guess is that they had slatted wooden bins below to store potatoes, onions, etc. I put a bale of straw in mine 3 years ago and cover my shelves with it and bury potatoes, winter squash or whatever in the straw. I lost a few sweet potatoes one year... the veggies were touching the block walls, so now I make sure they are well buried in straw against the outside wall.

The extra space below the shelves gives me a place to drag in tender plants in pots for winter, things like my figs.

I have 3 books I bought used (and cheap) on half.com; all have some interesting tips and information. They are Root Cellaring, Putting Food By, and Stocking Up.

Here's a couple of photos