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Dehydrating Foods
Dehydrating is said to be the oldest form of food preservation. Amazingly what worked for the ancients is becoming valuable to self-sufficient souls today.
Kitchen Disaster Preparedness
Peggy Trowbridge, our ABOUT guide for Home Cooking, has plans for organizing your pantry in case of a disaster. Y2K is long past, but you never know.
Determining Dryness
When you are drying fruits and vegetables, you need to know how dry is dry enough. It sounds funny until you actually do it!
Food Drying
Marcella Shaffer writes an excellent article for Backwoods Home. She's included an array of informative tables and diagrams.
Quality For Keeps - Drying Foods
An incredibly informative page created by the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at University of Missouri-Columbia.
Quality for Keeps - How to Use Dried Foods
Information from the previous source. Now that you've dried it, in what ways can your dehydrated fruits and veggies be used?
Small-Scale Food Dehydration
Not as small scale as the title suggests, the information on this web site is for farms, communes, and rural communities. It's a great resource list.