Food preservation is a big topic here on the homestead. Going to the store is hours worth of work and who knows what kind of crazy you are going to find there including sold out shelfs or items you went

My first run with the freeze dryer! Since this video I've learned more about the freeze dryer with some trial and error lol. Expect a video later with some other food types you can freeze dry and maybe

I ordered a Harvest Right Freeze Dryer and it finally arrived. I decided to do an unboxing video of it! I owe it to my amazing community over on my live stream who came together and got me this. It was

It rained all day long and made for one hell of a mess around the farm. Mid day I had to go and cut a drainage channel for the large puddles in the driveway to drain. The lowest spot always gets the bulk

The most recent batch to come out of the freeze dryer is the ingredients for ramen bowls. So often the store bought ones have tons of sodium and various ingredients that we don't really need to be ingesting.

I am super stoked to have gotten the email with the award after successfully decoding the images that were being transmitted by the space station. While not perfect I still have the audio files of every

Woke up in the morning to 2 inches of snow fallen and through out the day it just kept dumping. By the time it changed from snow to rain we had 10 inches fallen on top of the couple inches that were on

Over the weekend while I was camping @stryeyz took care of the freeze dryer. When I left there was still a load in that finished on Saturday. It consisted of quite the variety of food. She had made up

Okay, I'm stoked! I woke up before 5:00am to spend my morning working the antenna on our house as well as the various websdrs that are around the world. From my time spent recording the audio signals I

I spent part of the day hauling logging cables around the farm, laying them out and trying to get the right lengths setup. I'm lucky to have had them left on the property when we bought it and I have used

The cycle stopped before 7:00 am which meant I was able to get the trays out and samples bagged up for @stryeyz to take to work with her. I was happy to see that almost everything came out perfectly.

Over 40 hours later the trout were done. Well, all but 2 of them were done. The largest of the fish was still a bit soft on the back so they got set aside while I bagged up the other 12 into 2 bags. I

The weather has decide to stream storms from the central Pacific which means warm storms and all rain for the end of Autumn and beginning of Winter. The hillside is completely clear of snow and the little

It was time to try trout in the freeze dryer and since I had them all in the freezer and they were nice and solid I unwrapped them and threw them on the trays. In total they weighed 7 pounds and got put

I was right in my thinking that the cycle would take about 40 hours. It took nearly 41 hours to finish the millet, rice, beans, and apples. About 6:30am the cycle finished and I had the trays out right

Since the freeze dryer was on a long cycle it gave me time to get the kitchen a bit more organized. With the addition of the dryer it takes up a substantial footprint. Where I have it sitting now was where

It was before 6:00am when the process finished and I checked on the trays. The 3 trays that held the Skittles and mini marshmallows were nicely done but the other 2 trays needed more time, how much I couldn't

After taking the delicata squash to the co-op first thing in the morning, it snowed for a good part of the day before turning to rain in the evening. At times it was super fat flakes coming down but we

It snowed a few inches and the farm was coated pretty well. We have a procession of storms that will be rolling through the next week so this is likely just the start of the deluge. It is snowing again

21 hours for the load of broccoli and banana to be finished. Both of them came out perfect. The banana has a way different texture than dehydrated and the flavor is more like a fresh banana than the condensed