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Quick Answer If your goal is preserving food that can later be rehydrated into meals that closely resemble the original, freeze drying is the clear choice. Because freeze drying removes moisture while helping preserve much of the food's internal structure,...

New Year's resolutions go back further than most people realize — an estimated 4,000 years, to when the ancient Babylonians marked the start of their year with promises to set things right. Centuries later, Julius Caesar moved the new year...

There are plenty of reasons people build a food storage — it's economical, it's a good way to preserve leftovers and garden produce, and it just makes sense. But one of the most important reasons is simpler than all of...

Extreme heat and power outages tend to show up together — and understanding why makes it easier to see how a shelf-stable food supply protects you when they do. A Real Example: The 2021 Pacific Northwest Heat Dome In the...

By Donna Hoaks, who lives on an 11-acre homestead in Texas. In February 2021, a forecasted arctic blast turned into a full-blown, life-threatening emergency across much of the country — an event now generally known as Winter Storm Uri. Here...

By Donna Hoaks, who lives on an 11-acre homestead in Texas. In the spring of 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic set in, panic-buying emptied shelves of toilet paper, sanitizer, and masks within days. Food shortages followed close behind, as shoppers...

A common question we see on our online advertisements is “but what if the electricity goes out?” While it is true that it takes power to run a freeze dryer, once that food is freeze dried it can be stored...

All Harvest Right freeze dryers are designed, engineered, and tested in our manufacturing facility in Salt Lake City, Utah. Our headquarters are located in North Salt Lake, about 10 miles from the Salt Lake City International airport. March 18, 2020...

Will the cost of a freeze dryer be going up or down soon? Freeze drying technology has, unfortunately, been very expensive. The initial freeze dryer we introduced just a few years ago was $5,000, but we keep doing our best...