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Avid Hiking Family Loves Their Freeze Dryer

Avid Hiking Family Loves Their Freeze Dryer

We recently received a message from a very satisfied customer. Don and Jessica Westbrook have owned a freeze dryer for nearly two years and love it. They use their freeze dryer to preserve garden produce, make snacks, and add to...

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Tips to Make Your Backpack Lighter

Tips to Make Your Backpack Lighter

The easiest way to absolutely hate a hiking trip is by having a heavy backpack. Lots of factors go into determining what a pack should weigh, but there are some general guidelines that hikers can follow: A loaded backpacking pack...

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RV Camping Meals With a Freeze Dryer: Carol's Story

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...

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How Freeze-Drying Can Improve Your Quality of Life

How Freeze-Drying Can Improve Your Quality of Life

How Freeze-Drying Improves Quality of Life Food security means having reliable access to enough safe, nutritious food to meet your needs — and without some way to preserve it, that security only lasts as long as what's currently in the...

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Freeze-Dried Food for Healthy Traveling: 6 Snack Ideas

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...

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8 Ways to Lighten Your Camping Load

8 Ways to Lighten Your Camping Load

Good camping food shouldn't mean a week of protein bars. Freeze-dried meals solve that problem directly: the freeze-drying process removes about 98% of a food's moisture, and its weight along with it, while keeping the nutrition, taste, and texture close...

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