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Dehydrating or Freeze Drying for Food Storage

by Billie Nicholson | Feb 22, 2017 | Dehydrating, Freeze-dried meat

Dehydrating fruit, vegetables and meat has been a process of food preservation for thousands of years using two sources of free and readily available forms of energy: sun and wind. Over time the use of heat in the form of small, closely controlled fires in “still...

Gratitude

by Billie Nicholson | Nov 9, 2015 | Apples, Composting, Dehydrating, Emergency Preparations, Food Storage, Gardening, Preparedness, preserving fruit, Thanksgiving

This is the time we begin to reflect on all the events we’ve experienced during the past year – some good and some which could have been better. Have you had an opportunity to be thankful for some of your preparedness activities? Recently traveling to see...

Dry Your Own Herbs

by Paul Eident | Jul 8, 2015 | Dehydrating, Dehydrating, Herbs

One of the advantages of growing your own herbs is being able to harvest fresh plant parts when you need them. Also, when you grow your own, you can select plants that might not be readily available in the local market. Preserving some herbs will allow their use year...

Multi-Level Dehydrating & Baking – The Possibilities are Endless

by Paul Eident | Mar 5, 2015 | Dehydrating, Sun-dried veggies

Use Your Sun Oven® To Preserve Fruits, Vegetables, Dry Fish and Meats Sun drying is an economical method of food preservation. Anything you see dried on your grocer’s shelves, you can dry. If you grow it, you can be assured of maximum freshness and food value....

Persimmon Leather

by Paul Eident | Dec 12, 2014 | Dehydrating, Dehydrating, Fruit, Persimmon, preserving fruit

Persimmons are a sweet and delicious fruit filled with vitamins and minerals. They contain anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory, anti-viral and anti-aging compounds. Persimmons are known to help soothe sore throats and irritated digestive tracts. They’re good for colds,...

Squash Chips

by Paul Eident | Nov 14, 2014 | Dehydrating, Dehydrating, Squash

When they were in abundance at our farmer’s market, I bought a bunch of summer squash. They are not one of my favorite frozen foods. In an attempt to find an alternative way to preserve them, I dehydrated them in our Sun Oven®. They were sliced in a uniform...