Sometimes nature pours itself on you with a bounty of fruits, vegetable, nuts, and berries. What can you do when you end up with more zucchinis than you, all your neighbors, friends, family, and co-workers can eat?

Preserving harvested foods has been around since ancient times. There’re four main ways to preserve your harvest: storing in a controlled environment, canning, dehydrating, and freezing.

Dehydrating is the easiest. Freezing and canning require more work and expertise. The controlled environment can be the hardest to manage. I’ll cover each of these in more detail in the next few blogs.

Dehydration involves heating foods continually until More >