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A productive garden can go from a few ripe vegetables to more food than your household can eat in a surprisingly short time. Tomatoes ripen together. Green beans seem to double overnight. Zucchini grows faster than you can give it...

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...

Guest Contributor, Donna Hoaks This past October marks our silver anniversary; twenty-five years of blissful, perfect marriage. You don’t believe me? OK, it hasn’t all been perfect, but it has been an amazing ride. If you were to ask the...

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...

For many people, this time of year is a time for allowable excess. It can be fun to relax your healthy eating standards for a few days – but inevitably, come the first of the year, the gyms fill up...

Those of us buried under a few feet of snow are daydreaming about summer vacation. And, since freeze drying keeps coming up in vacation conversations, we thought we'd share how some of our customers are planning to use their freeze...

If there’s one thing Brigette Petersen knows a bit about, it’s stretching a dollar – and an hour. The busy wife and mother of three knows what it’s like to look for the cheap and fast solution when it comes...