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A big Thanksgiving spread almost always makes more food than one meal can use up, and the usual choices are eating the same dinner for a week straight or watching good food go to waste. Freeze-drying gives you a third...

Freeze-drying looks the same no matter what's going into the machine — fruit, dairy, or a full dinner — but it's easier to picture with a real batch in mind. Here's what a run looks like from prep to rehydration,...

A productive garden can go from a few ripe vegetables to more food than your household can eat in a surprisingly short time. Tomatoes ripen together. Green beans seem to double overnight. Zucchini grows faster than you can give it...

How to Freeze Dry Bread Bread is one of the most common pantry staples, but it's also one of the easiest foods to waste. Whether it's a loaf of sandwich bread, homemade sourdough, dinner rolls, or leftover French bread, it...

  Hamburgers are easy to make, popular with nearly every age group, and perfect for summer cookouts—but they can also leave you with more food than your family can eat. Instead of letting extra burgers sit in the refrigerator until...

A road trip has its own packing math that camping and flying don't: you've got trunk space instead of a backpack's weight limit, but you're also stopping at a lot more gas stations and drive-thrus than you'd probably choose to...

Planning a Bigger Garden for Freeze Drying and Food Preservation Garden planning often begins during the coldest part of the year. Seed catalogs arrive, new varieties catch your attention, and it becomes easy to imagine beds overflowing with tomatoes, peppers,...

A huge amount of good food goes to waste every year in the U.S. — even as food insecurity remains a real problem for many households. Two habits go a long way toward closing that gap: freeze-drying food before it...

A crooked carrot or an oddly-shaped tomato isn't damaged goods — it's just produce that grew the way produce actually grows. A surprising amount of perfectly good food gets tossed each year for looking wrong rather than being wrong, even...