You can easily dehydrate just about any food with these simple steps.
How To Make Homemade Venison Jerky
As an organic diversified farm we take both homemade and healthy very seriously. My daughter and I got two deer last year. We needed to process the venison recently as our freezer is going to be full again with our cow this winter. We wanted to make best use of the backstrap of the deer […]
Apples and Bananas Fruit Roll Ups
Getting a new food dehydrator in the dead of winter didn’t stop me from giving it a whirl! Check out how I made these healthy, sugar free fruit roll ups with only two ingredients!
Using Your Wood Stove as a Food Dehydrator
While I would do a lot to get my hands on an excalibur dehydrator, they are expensive and use a lot of electricity. Until I have the means to get one, I’ve been experimenting with alternative methods of dehydrating food and herbs. I haven’t had much luck simply air drying many herbs, so I’m always […]
How to Dry Herbs in a Dehydrator
Summer is winding down and before you know it all the glorious fresh herbs we’ve been taking advantage of will no longer be available. It’s time to talk about how to dry herbs. You can simply bring them indoors and hang them as bundles from hooks (I like doing this with lavender). You can also […]
How to Make a Pick Up Truck Solar Dehydrator
We always joked that it got so hot in the back of the truck with the cap on just sitting out there in the West Virginia sunshine that we could use it as a solar oven (fry an egg yada yada). Well, the heat got to us so badly we decided that we decided that […]
