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How to Preserve a Full Harvest: Method by Crop Type
A big harvest rarely fits one preservation method. Some crops freeze-dry beautifully and lose almost nothing in the process; others are actually better off in a cold cellar or a cool pantry corner, no machine required. Sorting that out ahead...
Share the Love: Freeze-Dried Food for Giving Back
Around Valentine's Day, generosity tends to get a little extra attention — and a freeze dryer turns out to be a genuinely practical tool for it, not just a way to stock your own pantry. Hunger Doesn't Always Look Like...
3 Freeze-Dried Veggie Chips to Replace Potato Chips
Salty and crunchy is a hard craving to shake, especially in winter. Freeze-drying vegetables into chip form solves that without the carbs, fat, or calories that come with a bag of regular chips — and a mandolin slicer is worth...
3 Simple Steps to Eat Healthier This Year
Diets built around restriction rarely last, which is probably why so many New Year's resolutions don't make it past February. Three smaller, more durable changes tend to hold up a lot better — and a freeze dryer makes all three...
Freeze-Dried Food for Healthy Traveling: 6 Snack Ideas
Airports are a rough place to eat well — not much good food to begin with, plenty of tempting bad food, no real way to check what's actually in anything, and prices that can run double or triple what the...
A Freeze-Dried Thanksgiving, Shipped Overseas
What do you do when your grandsons can't make it home for Thanksgiving? If you're Yvonne H., you send Thanksgiving to them. The Situation Yvonne's twin grandsons, Ben and Jesse, were serving as missionaries in Uruguay and Panama — the...
How to Freeze-Dry Homemade Pet Food (Recipe & Cost)
Concerns about commercial pet food have pushed a lot of owners toward cooking for their pets themselves — done right, a home-cooked diet can be a genuinely healthier option. The challenge has always been storage: fresh homemade pet food doesn't...
3 Freeze-Dried After-School Snack Recipes
The stretch between the last school bell and dinner is exactly when kids reach for whatever's easiest — and that's usually not something you'd choose for them. These three freeze-dried recipes give them something to grab that's actually good for...
Is a CSA Worth Joining? What to Expect
A CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) share is a good option if you want genuinely fresh, local produce but don't have the time, space, or interest to grow it yourself. You pay a local farm for a share, and in exchange...