I dried summer squash this year. The oldfasioned way by slicing them paper thin and drying them on a clothes rack. Then i crisp them in the oven. I would love to buy one of those dehydrators but can't at the moment. I had to stuff all my leftover money into keeping my vehicles rolling this year. Frustratingggg :D I am however eating from the garden every day! I particularly like my tomatoes and pumpkins and beans. I have so much, i can't believe it. Wish i had more potatoes but that's the way it goes. You win some, you lose some. The freezer is full, the fridge is full of pickle jars, the beans are drying. Your garden looks fantastic, Stephen!
Life tends to get in the way ! I hope you can find a dehydrator soon! It sounds like you have done well my friend ! I am so very glad ! Thank you ! The garden is about to take a turn for the worse as the weather cools but I'll enjoy it while I can !
I have a lot of grapes this year, your video has prompted me to make grape juice. I like your Tomato juice. Lots of useful information Stephen and I thank for that.
Wow! I love, love, love your channel! The food looks delicious, you do a remarkable job explaining. It makes me want to come over and eat with your family. Such healthy food!. I lived this way growing up but never learned how to can, preserve, make jams or jellies. My job was picking and washing. I really miss it. I would love to see lots of healthy recipes. Thank you so much for sharing, so very much appreciated. Can't wait to see what else you have. Loved the dehydrater, that would save tons on spices love to see more recipes. God Bless and Thank you so much!
Stephen potatoes can be stored in Hessian sacks and root vegetables can be stored in sand boxes. The problem is sometimes fruit trees produce too much to preserve. For example my Victoria Plum tree produced over 20kg of fruit, and as much I love plums, I could not eat them all. This year my neighbours got 10 shopping bags of fruit and I still managed to make 2 litres of jam.
I certainly wish I could have a cold cellar. Usually when things produce too much like apples or plumbs I brew wine or cider with them. You can move through a large volume that way much simpler than a jam or jelly. Giving them away is also great !
I sure did miss not having a bunch of veggies to put up this year, Stephen! The food storage pantry is getting a might slim! Oh well, at least I have started the fall winter greenhouse, so it's not a total loss! Video coming soon!
It's hard to beat fermentation, although some garden ingredients make for peculiar wine. Persimmon wine was good, onion wine was drinkable, but my water-melon wine had the aroma of furniture polish (couldn't even give that one away to my drinking buddy), but, as I was saying, a person should always try new things. The new thing I've tried this year, is natural fermentation, the process of lactic acid pickling in a salt brine. Really good results with snow peas, beans, and beets. It also fits my lazy approach to life, since the only stuff you need are some jars, water, and salt; and you don't even have to turn on a stove.
I have the same watering can and dehydrator as you! I think you must shop at Lee Valley too. Preserving our crops for the year is the main reason my wife and I garden. I love to eat something preserved from our garden in the middle of the winter and remember the beautiful summer sunshine that produced it! If you ever decide to start pressure canning your veg, I recommend the All American 921 canner, expensive but the best and you can pass it down to the next generation. Have you seen the website The National Centre For Home Food Preservation?
Sounds like my christmas gift givers shop there ;) both of these were gifts over the last few years! I usually do boil canning as pressure canning knowing how bad I am at kitchen timing would be a disaster !! That said I am sure my wife would have no issues ;) I have not but I will check out that website!
I took a canning class but still haven't tried it at home. I am a PRO at making Tomato Basil soup and freezing it. Same goes for the winter excess crop of Broccoli into a nice Broccoli & cheese soup. The soups last all year. It's almost time for me to harvest and pick through the basil and make pesto from that. I hate to waste the veggies that took so much effort to grow. My olive trees gave me small olives and most are still on the branches. I need to work on getting them to grow bigger before I start to brine them. My canning class info will come in handy then.
Canning is a lot of fun and makes it so nice and easy to store ! My wife taught me and usually keeps a watchful eye :) Olives as far as I can tell can take some time to grow well enough to set their fruit properly. That said I would love one and an orange tree.
Great video Stephen! Now, my wife and I can, freeze and store in the basement. I have 2 dehydrators that I bought many years ago, but trying to convince my wife to do this has not worked well. LOL Have a blessed week.
I end up doing all of the dehydrating to keep her happy. Works well for all. I am just about to bring my tea to work and enjoy it while I work away this winter !
I have dried black beans, pinto, black eyed peas, and even some overgrown green beans, I have basil, thyme, sage and oregano drying, and some frozen, I use a vacuum sealer for jars for my dried goods and vacuum seal my frozen herbs. No dehydrator just hang them in the basement and run a dehumidifier.
I dehydrated all of my extra tomatoes and then turned them into powder. From thirteen big tomato plants I have two mason jars full of powder that will last a year
you can add whole ones to soups or stews and they will partially rehydrate. You can mix the powder with water or stock to make tomato sauce, paste, soup, etc.
I built a few solar dehydrators, once the initial expense is done, dehydration is free. Even in winter with limited sun, I have dehydrated mushrooms, it just took longer.
Great video. Your productivity is inspiring. I have a question though. We freeze much of our garden produce, but I'm hesitant about dehydration because I'm not sure about its impact on nutrition. Do you know of a reliable source that discusses any loss of nutrients during the process? Thanks as always for your thoughtful videos.
There is no loss of any of the micro and macro elements in the food just the water content. I don't have a reliable sources other than my experiences through my work and we often use dehydration to prepare samples.
Hello, can some of these techniques be incorporated into a medium-scale farm? I am working on something for my local community as over 50% of the food produce are wasted.
i have a gas oven w a button for dehydrating. does anyone have this type of oven and have you tried dehydrating anything w it? I've never even clicked on the button
I hadn't realised how easy it was to dehydrate things! Thanks!
very very simple! Just make sure to use the cooler settings!
I dried summer squash this year. The oldfasioned way by slicing them paper thin and drying them on a clothes rack. Then i crisp them in the oven. I would love to buy one of those dehydrators but can't at the moment. I had to stuff all my leftover money into keeping my vehicles rolling this year. Frustratingggg :D I am however eating from the garden every day! I particularly like my tomatoes and pumpkins and beans. I have so much, i can't believe it. Wish i had more potatoes but that's the way it goes. You win some, you lose some. The freezer is full, the fridge is full of pickle jars, the beans are drying. Your garden looks fantastic, Stephen!
Life tends to get in the way ! I hope you can find a dehydrator soon!
It sounds like you have done well my friend ! I am so very glad !
Thank you ! The garden is about to take a turn for the worse as the weather cools but I'll enjoy it while I can !
I have a lot of grapes this year, your video has prompted me to make grape juice. I like your Tomato juice. Lots of useful information Stephen and I thank for that.
Have fun with your grape juice! I love how wonderful everything tastes from the garden! I would hate for any of it to go to waste!
Wow! I love, love, love your channel! The food looks delicious, you do a remarkable job explaining. It makes me want to come over and eat with your family. Such healthy food!. I lived this way growing up but never learned how to can, preserve, make jams or jellies. My job was picking and washing. I really miss it. I would love to see lots of healthy recipes. Thank you so much for sharing, so very much appreciated. Can't wait to see what else you have. Loved the dehydrater, that would save tons on spices love to see more recipes. God Bless and Thank you so much!
Great job Stephen! I've been drying herbs, canning and freezing garden produce a lot lately, getting ready for winter :-/
It is sad to see a hard frost but happy to have all of this preserved for winter :)
Winter is good. You have time to prepare for the new season :)
I just found your channel and I love it, thanks for sharing. Great info!
Glad you enjoy it my friend!! Thanks for watching!
i realize it is quite off topic but do anyone know of a good site to stream newly released tv shows online?
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Grape jam and jelly yum. Yep, preserving is a great idea. I can't wait to make some sauce from produce I grew in the garden.
I am sure you will get that his year. How is spring coming along !
Stephen potatoes can be stored in Hessian sacks and root vegetables can be stored in sand boxes. The problem is sometimes fruit trees produce too much to preserve. For example my Victoria Plum tree produced over 20kg of fruit, and as much I love plums, I could not eat them all. This year my neighbours got 10 shopping bags of fruit and I still managed to make 2 litres of jam.
I certainly wish I could have a cold cellar.
Usually when things produce too much like apples or plumbs I brew wine or cider with them. You can move through a large volume that way much simpler than a jam or jelly. Giving them away is also great !
I sure did miss not having a bunch of veggies to put up this year, Stephen! The food storage pantry is getting a might slim! Oh well, at least I have started the fall winter greenhouse, so it's not a total loss! Video coming soon!
You certainly are much better off being able to grow all year long. I'll watch out for your next video !
It's hard to beat fermentation, although some garden ingredients make for peculiar wine. Persimmon wine was good, onion wine was drinkable, but my water-melon wine had the aroma of furniture polish (couldn't even give that one away to my drinking buddy), but, as I was saying, a person should always try new things. The new thing I've tried this year, is natural fermentation, the process of lactic acid pickling in a salt brine. Really good results with snow peas, beans, and beets. It also fits my lazy approach to life, since the only stuff you need are some jars, water, and salt; and you don't even have to turn on a stove.
I have not tried that yet. The microbiologist in me just cant get past the lack of control ;)
I have the same watering can and dehydrator as you! I think you must shop at Lee Valley too. Preserving our crops for the year is the main reason my wife and I garden. I love to eat something preserved from our garden in the middle of the winter and remember the beautiful summer sunshine that produced it! If you ever decide to start pressure canning your veg, I recommend the All American 921 canner, expensive but the best and you can pass it down to the next generation. Have you seen the website The National Centre For Home Food Preservation?
Thanks for the suggestion. Never knew of that website
Sounds like my christmas gift givers shop there ;) both of these were gifts over the last few years!
I usually do boil canning as pressure canning knowing how bad I am at kitchen timing would be a disaster !! That said I am sure my wife would have no issues ;)
I have not but I will check out that website!
I took a canning class but still haven't tried it at home. I am a PRO at making Tomato Basil soup and freezing it. Same goes for the winter excess crop of Broccoli into a nice Broccoli & cheese soup. The soups last all year. It's almost time for me to harvest and pick through the basil and make pesto from that. I hate to waste the veggies that took so much effort to grow. My olive trees gave me small olives and most are still on the branches. I need to work on getting them to grow bigger before I start to brine them. My canning class info will come in handy then.
Canning is a lot of fun and makes it so nice and easy to store ! My wife taught me and usually keeps a watchful eye :)
Olives as far as I can tell can take some time to grow well enough to set their fruit properly. That said I would love one and an orange tree.
I like the idea of dehydrating and freezing what we have.
It works well!
You can use a toaster oven on a low heat setting.
Dehydrating allows you to not need a fridge to store crops and you just add water or stock. Heck, you could dehydrate stock.
very nice video!! great info!!
Thank you my friend!
Thanks for sharing this video ., i have never really presved anything except freezing my foods :)
It helps me enjoy more food from the garden well into the winter! I could not live with out it now!
amazing to hear it so.happy for you
it has taken me a few years to get it into my planning and I still have a long way to go but i quite enjoy it!
Awesome video!! Thank you..Pass it On to Others
Thank you for sharing and enjoying the video.
Great video Stephen! Now, my wife and I can, freeze and store in the basement. I have 2 dehydrators that I bought many years ago, but trying to convince my wife to do this has not worked well. LOL
Have a blessed week.
I end up doing all of the dehydrating to keep her happy. Works well for all.
I am just about to bring my tea to work and enjoy it while I work away this winter !
Again, thank you for sharing and yes, I am going to start dehydrating next year.
It is absolutely my pleasure ! We quite enjoy making these videos !
I have dried black beans, pinto, black eyed peas, and even some overgrown green beans, I have basil, thyme, sage and oregano drying, and some frozen, I use a vacuum sealer for jars for my dried goods and vacuum seal my frozen herbs. No dehydrator just hang them in the basement and run a dehumidifier.
Sounds like you have been busy !
I tried air dehydrating but our climate just did not work well !
***** I think without the dehumidifier I would be challenged, very humid here.
NIce video! Thank you
Thanks!
I dehydrated all of my extra tomatoes and then turned them into powder. From thirteen big tomato plants I have two mason jars full of powder that will last a year
How do you use dehydrated tomatoes?
you can add whole ones to soups or stews and they will partially rehydrate. You can mix the powder with water or stock to make tomato sauce, paste, soup, etc.
Thank you ! I'll have to try it out !
Good idea, thanks!
I built a few solar dehydrators, once the initial expense is done, dehydration is free. Even in winter with limited sun, I have dehydrated mushrooms, it just took longer.
I will have to research solar ones! I would love to cut the power requirement!
the trick to solar dehydration in winter when there is limited heat, is to have enough ventilation.
Great video. Your productivity is inspiring. I have a question though. We freeze much of our garden produce, but I'm hesitant about dehydration because I'm not sure about its impact on nutrition. Do you know of a reliable source that discusses any loss of nutrients during the process? Thanks as always for your thoughtful videos.
There is no loss of any of the micro and macro elements in the food just the water content. I don't have a reliable sources other than my experiences through my work and we often use dehydration to prepare samples.
Hello, can some of these techniques be incorporated into a medium-scale farm? I am working on something for my local community as over 50% of the food produce are wasted.
How come lettuce or cabbage goes bad in the fridge in couple weeks but you can store them for months
i have a gas oven w a button for dehydrating. does anyone have this type of oven and have you tried dehydrating anything w it? I've never even clicked on the button
Do you have a recipe for the rhubarb wine?
thanks
My pleasure
Prah-duce. 😂
you lost weight
I have :) the video I did before this one goes into more detail :)