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Food Dehydrator, Oven Drying, or Sun Drying?Dehydrating your own fruits, vegetables, mushrooms, and meats is an essential way to extend your harvest and enjoy delicious foods year round.A couple of fruit trees, a hunting trip, or a successful mushroom hunt can yield far more than one can eat in a week, and freezer space can fill up fast.The price of sun dried tomatoes alone can justify investing in a food dehydrator that can process pounds of dried tomatoes overnight!But where to start? Which me …

Create Herbal Tea BlendsWhen cool weather sets in, all of the comfort food recipes come out, but one area of kitchen comfort you may not have explored is blending your own herbal teas! Growing and gathering flavorful and aromatic plants for tea can be a year round hobby, but you can just as easily create your tea blends with ingredients purchased in bulk, peppering in your own farmed or foraged additions. Even a small amount of garden space can yield a significant amount of tea makings – a patch …