Lowtech Graph lists low-tech options for every need of a home. Here you can compare them, find tutorials to build them, and link them together into a circular system. Why low-tech?

Dry storage

Storing what keeps without cold: grain, flour, roots, jars. What these want is dry, dark and ventilated, and a room that already has those costs nothing to run. The options differ in what they are suited to and in how much of the house they take up.

Solutions

• Ventilated dry pantry: A food cupboard or small room with vents to the outside, so air moves through it constantly. The moving air keeps it dry and cool, without any machine. Dry good
• Sand-box root vegetable storage: Root vegetables such as carrots, beetroot and potatoes laid in boxes of dry or slightly damp sand, kept cool and dark. The sand keeps each vegetable apart, so t
• Passive multi-zone pantry storage system: Built-in food storage divided into up to four zones, each with its own conditions: airy and light for fruit, airy and dark for potatoes and onions, cold and dam