These 13 homesteading root cellar alternatives will give homesteaders other options to preserve vegetables longer. Traditionally, farmers and homesteaders use earthen root cellars to store fresh vegetables after the year’s harvest. Unfortunately today, this may not be possible for everyone, so what is a person do? So if fall harvesting is fast approaching and you have nowhere to put all of those fresh vegetables that you will be using to feed your family throughout the fall and winter, there are a number of things you do that will work as a replacement to a root cellar.