He's memorized the location of all cellars. Eventually he took me to a root cellar with a top hatch that sits along the shore. He said it's like the one he had when he was a boy.

"Olfactory threshold of root-vegetable aromatics: a 20-year merlot analysis." I once kept my precious stash in a cellar I'd mostly built myself out of 2-by-12 lumber joists and some pine.

A test run will take place this winter for a new high-tech, above-ground communal root cellar in West Carleton. It will allow farmers to sell local produce throughout the winter.