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6 Tips for a Bigger Tomato Harvest
Tomatoes are technically a fruit, though most gardeners treat them as a vegetable — and either way, they're one of the easiest, most rewarding plants in a home garden. A single plant typically produces somewhere between 8 and 20 pounds...
RV Camping Meals With a Freeze Dryer: Carol's Story
Carol, a Harvest Right customer from Utah, got her freeze dryer at Christmas and ran it almost nonstop through the following summer — mostly to stock her 5th-wheel RV for dry camping. Her honest question going in: would her husband...
How Fast Does a Freeze Dryer Pay for Itself?
The answer depends almost entirely on how often the machine actually gets used — which is exactly what one independent cost test set out to measure. One Real Cost Test A YouTube creator known as "Retired at 40" ran a...
4 Hearty Soups and Stews to Freeze-Dry This Winter
Soup season brings an abundance of cheap, plentiful root vegetables and a genuine craving for something hot on a cold day. A freeze dryer makes that easier year-round — prep ingredients ahead, or freeze-dry a full batch for an instant...
Freeze-Dried Cauliflower Rice and Mash
Cauliflower is one of the more versatile low-carb swaps for traditional starches. Its mild flavor absorbs seasoning easily, and both of the preparations below approximate the real thing closely enough to work in most of the same recipes — all...
School Lunch Ideas With Freeze-Dried Food
Packing lunch saves money, gives you real control over what your kids are eating, and makes managing food allergies much easier. What works best depends heavily on age: younger kids usually don't have easy access to hot water for rehydrating,...
Make-Ahead Pumpkin Pie Mix, Freeze-Dried
"This time last year I was stocking up on canned pumpkin and evaporated milk. I made pumpkin pie filling and freeze dried it." That's how Allyson S., a Harvest Right owner, described the recipe that turned pumpkin pie from a...
3 Gourmet Pizza Recipes With Freeze-Dried Toppings
Pizza is routinely cited as one of America's most popular foods — commonly-cited industry figures put U.S. consumption in the billions of pies a year, with kids ages 3 to 11 frequently naming it their favorite food, and pepperoni as...
How to Freeze-Dry Sweet Potatoes
Sweet potatoes pack in vitamin A, vitamin C, manganese, copper, potassium, dietary fiber, and several B vitamins — and freeze-drying them turns a seasonal vegetable into something you can keep on hand year-round, whether whole slices or ground into a...