We offer several services to help you create a food storage structure or space for your farm, home or institution:
Design/Build
We offer custom designed spaces for Farm storage projects, residential basement, kitchen retrofits, and new construction of full food storage facilities to meet your unique food storage needs, conditions, and places. Our design team offers experience as builders and innovators in the renewable energy and agricultural fields.
Spec Drawings
We offer several premade root cellar designs with associated construction drawings, materials lists, and mechanical drawings. You can use these to inspire and create your own space for food storage. Available online in December- inquire within about your specific needs.
Ventilation and Insulation Services
The first step toward a full basement retrofit, an energy savings boost, and a great way to begin to learn about natural cold storage and food preservation.
Consulting
We offer 1 hour to 1 day rates for consulting on projects within North America. We apply a 5% discount of our day rates for non profits, reservations and CSA’s. We also accept certain forms of natural capital in trade for our consultations.
Beets stored in wooden crates.
Materials we use:
Ferro-cement
For caves, monolithic structures, retrofits, and existing walkin modification. Allows for the optimal adjustment of thermal mass and insulation.
Concrete
Foundation material in flat roofed and additions including root cellars, the highest thermal mass values.
Cinder Block
For the cold and humid storage spaces and for new construction including a floor system for a building.
Concrete Board
for retrofits and walkins, our cheapest but lowest thermal mass material.
Insulated Cubic Forms
For warmer and drier storage spacesinclude as foundation for a building.
Stone
As an exterior and interior veneer, and for some interior load bearing capacities. Generally used for façade appearances in residential projects. Second highest thermal mass capacity.
Other Food Storage Structures we design and build: