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Preserving Oranges

by Billie Nicholson | Jan 20, 2017 | Oranges, preserving fruit, preserving oranges

It’s Orange Harvest Time Sweet, juicy oranges bring a ray of sunshine in the cold winter months. We have been busy harvesting a bunch from a friend’s tree. What a project just picking them. The tree we picked from had been growing for thirty years before it...

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...

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,...

Mama’s Last Gift

by Paul Eident | Dec 12, 2014 | Family preparedness, Food Storage, Preparedness, preserving fruit

As a child growing up on a farm in Virginia, we learned to grow our own food as well as raise a cash crop. Our Mom spent many hours working with us to harvest and preserve food. As she aged, Mom slowly reduced the items she preserved, but still kept making some of...

Waste Not … Want Not … Making Apple Cider Vinegar

by Paul Eident | Oct 8, 2014 | Cider vinegar, Food Storage, Preparedness, preserving fruit

Return to Knowledge Basics Last fall we wrote about several ways to preserve apples. We canned apple slices, apple sauce and dried apple slices in the Sun Oven®. This year, we’ve had an abundant harvest of apples again. With all that apple preservation, we were...

The Fascinating Fig

by Paul Eident | Aug 8, 2014 | Fruit, preserving fruit

Fig History The fig is the most talked about fruit in the Bible, referenced 43 times. The fig tree provided the first clothing mentioned and some suspect that the forbidden fruit might have been a fig rather than an apple. As a token of honor, figs were used as a...