The more I focus on growing as much of our own food as possible, the more I’m bothered by waste. The bread that stales before we can use it, the vegetable trimmings, that last bit of coffee in the decanter; I’ve found ways to use all of that. But what to do with the...
Read more →A couple of years ago, I wrote about the method I use for drying tomatoes — oven-drying. It’s a really simple method, and one that works for me because air-drying is impossible due to Michigan’s humid summers, and I still can’t justify shelling out a few hundred dollars for a good quality food dehydrator....
Read more →Buying a big freezer has totally changed the way I preserve food from the garden. In the past, I did a lot more canning. This year, I made a lot of pickles using my boiling water canner (and a lot of refrigerator pickles, which is even easier) but I didn’t can a single tomato....
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