If you’re feeling extra or you live in a root cellar like a Victorian peasant, you can store beets in damp sand. Yes, sand. It works because sand keeps beets from shriveling up like a forgotten raisin. But honestly, most of us don’t have sand lying around unless we’ve recently built a sandcastle in the living room.
If you try this method, layer the beets in a bucket with moist sand (not wet—think beach towel, not swimming pool). This buys you months of storage. I did it once and felt like a pioneer. Then my cat sat in the bucket, and I switched back to the fridge method.
