Blog
Sneak More Vegetables Into Meals With a Freeze Dryer
If getting more vegetables into your diet — or a picky eater's — is part of your goals this year, hiding them inside food you already love is one of the easier ways to get there. Freeze-drying makes that especially...
25 Delicious Freeze-Dried Treats You Can Make at Home One of the best parts of owning a Harvest Right freeze dryer is discovering just how many fun and delicious treats you can create. While freeze drying is often associated with...
Freeze-Drying Sour Cream (and Other Dairy) at Home
Sour cream is one of those staples that rarely gets used up before it expires — you need two tablespoons for a recipe, and the rest of the tub sits in the fridge until it doesn't make it. Freeze-drying solves...
How to Save Heirloom Seeds (Step-by-Step Guide)
Heirloom vegetables tend to be hardier and more flavorful than hybrids, but they also cost more — which is exactly why saving your own seeds is worth doing. Here's how to pick the right seeds, ferment and store them properly,...
Freeze Dryer Videos: Tutorials and Owner Inspiration Seeing a freeze dryer in action makes the whole process a lot less abstract, whether you're deciding if it's worth buying or looking for new ways to use the one you already have....
What to Freeze-Dry Now to Save for Winter (or Eat Today)
What to Freeze-Dry Now to Save for Winter (or Eat Today) Peak season is a two-for-one opportunity: freeze-dry the abundance to brighten up winter meals later, and freeze-dry a batch of favorites to snack on immediately. Here's what falls into...
2 Simple Summer Recipes for Your Freeze-Dried Garden Harvest
When tomatoes, zucchini, and peppers come in faster than you can eat them, freeze-drying lets you portion out that abundance now and turn it back into dinner in minutes, months later. Here are two easy summer recipes built around freeze-dried...
Going Mostly Meatless: One Neighbor's Real Story
Our neighbor Mike gave up meat for Lent this year, coached along by another set of neighbors who are vegetarian and vegan. Forty days in, he'd lost weight, looked healthier, and — even though he was counting down to his...
Cooking with Freeze-Dried Herbs: Pesto & More
Freeze-drying a good herb harvest in the fall means still having real basil, lemon verbena, or whatever else grew well, well into winter — enough to build a dinner party menu around three different pesto varieties instead of rationing one...