The summer starts with putting in: putting in the garden, putting in the time and energy to ensure it produces well. And now it’s time start thinking of putting by. This is what your grandmother called it: preserving all the surplus from the garden and putting it by for future use. As much as I…
The news is alarming: reports of food shortages around the world, world leaders confirming there will be even more shortages to come, food warehouses and production facilities burning down and more transportation bottlenecks. In the last month or two I’ve received several emails and phone calls from people asking if it’s too late for them…
Man has been drying food for millennia. It should be an important part of preserving your food. If I had only one way to preserve my food, only one way to build up my food storage, I would go with dehydrating. As much as I like the taste of frozen food and the convenience of…
The year is winding down The year is winding down and so are your opportunities to complete your food storage goals. Now is the time to buy honey, grains, beans and other food commodities. As the harvest is brought in, food prices drop to their lowest in the year. Take advantage of these lower prices…
Love my dried tomatoes I just completed my seventh batch of dried tomatoes. Each batch of tomatoes fills all nine trays in my Excalibur Dehydrator. I get about 20-22 lbs into each batch. That’s the equivalent of about seven quarts of canned diced tomatoes. It takes about 24 hrs for a load of tomatoes to…
It’s time to be drying herbs The chives and comfrey are already flowering; the dandelions, chickweed and nettles have been trying to take over the yard. I’ve already harvested about a pound of dandelion root, about ½ of what I’d like to dig up and get put away for the year. Last year’s dill re-seeded…