Published: 03 Nov 2018 › Updated: 03 Nov 2018
Would you look at that?! Efficiency, here we come!
My Christmas and Birthday gifts came Early! We've been trying to get the right tools over time, as circumstances allow, so that we can become a lot more efficient and cost effective with our food budget/storage. While we are really not getting very good production out of our gardening attempts, we obviously buy food. No reason we can't be stocking up the dehydrated pantry with some of that produce.
In the future we will be selling our deep freeze in order to replace it with an upright freezer. The deep freezer is too cumbersome. We find it difficult to bend into it to find what we want. We have a ton of food spoilage because we "lose" food into the frozen abyss. I'm sure those of you with them know exactly what I'm talking about. Other things we want to do include building a root cellar, solar dehydrator, and do more pressure canning, etc. Those are all high on our food preservation list. To be honest, I would prefer to go totally off grid in the food storage department. I really don't want to have a fridge or freezer. I'm not the only one who gets a say, but that doesn't mean I can transition my food to dehydrated goods. This is a long term investment I hope will pay off greatly.
This is the one we went with. Because it has the stainless steel trays and can get up to 167 degrees F. Eventually, we will have a solar dehydrator. But as of now, we have too much food spoilage, our freezer is out of control, and our food storage is in complete disarray.
Haven't finished clearing out space where I need to set this up at, so it's not completely unpacked. Anxious to give her a whirl.
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STORIES:
- BAREFOOT IN THE BOONIES: EXPOSING MY ROOTS (introduction post)
- BAREFOOT IN THE BOONIES: Chapter 1
- BAREFOOT IN THE BOONIES: FAMILY OWNED: Chapter 1 Section 2
- BAREFOOT IN THE BOONIES: ABANDONED BASEMENT: Chapter 1 Section 2
- BAREFOOT IN THE BOONIES: REWIND: GROWING UP WITH TURNTABLES
2011 GARDEN:
- 2011: DESIGN AND BUILD
- 2011 BACKYARD TRELLIS, PERIMETER, & VOLUNTEER
- 2011 TIRE PORTION OF THE GARDEN
- 2011 BRASSICAS-TIRE GARDEN
- 2011 DWARF ORCHARD
RECIPES:
- SANTA DELIVERED SHROOMS-SHITAKE OYSTER SCRAMBLE
- SWEET CINNAMON POPCORN
- MOCK ALMOND JOY--CHEAPER AND HEALTHIER
- HANGRY TERIYAKI
- RASHES--WHY I SWITCHED TO THIS COMMON DIY LAUNDRY SOAP AND HOW I MAKE IT
- SCRAMBLED EGGS WITH FORAGED FINDS: FIRST FOOD FORAGE OF 2018
- WHAT'S FOR DINNER? BEETS ME! FIRST GARDEN HARVEST AND RECIPE
POEMS:
PLANTS AND ANIMALS-EDUCATIONAL:
- GRASS IS OUR FRIEND
- LITTLE BLUESTEM--BENEFICIAL AND BEAUTIFUL
- BEHOLD THE BEAUTY OF THE FALSE INDIGO BUSH
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2018:
- WILD TURKEY TAIL AND REISHI MUSHROOMS
- HUGELKULTUR BED STARTED BUT THERE IS A LOGISTICAL OBSTACLE.
- 2018 CURRENT HAPPENINGS: FOOD FOREST EXPANSION
- WILD EDIBLES AROUND THE HOMESTEAD
- GRANNY SMITH APPLE FINALLY GOT SOME LOVE
- PICKED MY FIRST PINT OF WILD NATIVE BLACK RASPBERRIES
- TRANSPLANTING WILD PURPLE GARLIC PART 1
- ORCHARD: PLANNING, PREPPING, AND PLANTING
- WILD PURPLE GARLIC TRANSPLANT UPDATE
- ZONE 2 OF THE FOOD FOREST
- COMFREY: ANOTHER QUINTESSENTIAL PERMACULTURE ADDITION TO OUR FOOD FOREST
- ONE OUT OF MANY: MY FIRST TIME GROWING SWEET POTATOES
- VISITED BY ROYALTY: THE NOBLE FEAST OF PEARS
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