Archives for Food_storage Transition Brockville (6)

Choosing a Food Dehydrator

Mother Earth News / David Cavagnaro / June/July 2003

Many different electric dehydrator models are available; I settled on four that best represent the various designs available: L’Equip’s Model 528, Nesco/American Harvest’s Gardenmaster, Excalibur’s Large Garden and Living Foods’ Jumbo dehydrator.

Home-food dehydrators fall into two categories: those with stackable trays, and those constructed of a rigid box with removable shelves. Size is a factor; most fit on a countertop, but larger models are free-standing and require more space. Some models have base-mounted fans that move hot air vertically; one has a rear-mounted fan for moving air horizontally; yet another uses convection drying, with no fan at all.

[ FULL ARTICLE HERE ]

5 Simple Ways to Reduce Food Waste

eartheasy.com / 28 May 2012

Timothy Jones, an anthropologist at the UA Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, estimates an average family of four currently tosses out $590 per year, just in meat, fruit, vegetables and grain products. Journalist Jonathan Bloom, who blogs at Wasted Food, tracked residential food waste for three decades, and estimates that as much as 25 percent of the food we bring into our homes is wasted. So a family of four that spends $175 a week on groceries squanders more than $40 worth of food each week and $2,275 a year.

Although food is wasted at the farm, in transit and on store shelves, a study in Tompkins County, N.Y., showed that 40 percent of food waste occurs in the home. Our personal efforts, therefore, play an important part in closing the gap on food waste and all its associated costs.

[ FULL ARTICLE HERE ]

StillTasty: Your Ultimate Shelf Life Guide

How long will your favourite food or beverage stay safe and tasty? What’s the best way to store it?

[ WEBSITE HERE ]

20 Crops That Keep and How to Store Them

Mother Earth News / Barbara Pleasant / August/September 2012

Knowing where our food comes from gives us confidence in its goodness, plus we save about $5,000 a year through our gardening and food storage efforts. There is another benefit, which is the utter convenience of having a self-provisioned home. In early winter when our stores are full, I feel like I’m living in a well-stocked organic grocery store.

We bring many years of experience to this quest, and we’re still learning. Measured by weight, stored garden crops make up more than half of our overall harvest, with every onion and potato just about as fresh as it was the day it came from the garden. Our mix of storage vegetables and fruits varies from year to year and we’ve learned that putting by storage crops is something anyone can do — even if your produce comes from the farmers market.

[ FULL ARTICLE HERE ]

Reap the Garden & Market Bounty: How to Dry Food

Mother Earth News / Barbara Pleasant / August/September 2008

Many gardeners freeze, can or give away surplus zucchini and tomatoes, but what about drying them? Not only is drying a delicious way to preserve and concentrate the flavors of your fruits, veggies and herbs, but when dried, produce requires little space — and no electricity — to store, so you can enjoy it throughout fall and winter.

[ FULL ARTICLE HERE ]

Save Money on Groceries

Mother Earth News / Roberta R. Bailey, Craig Idlebrook / August/September 2010

Having a garden and putting by our own food is the ideal for which many of us strive. It’s the optimal way to save money on groceries. The food source doesn’t get any more local, the cost is low, the flavor is incredible and the carbon footprint is not much more than a muddy footprint on your doormat.

Not everyone has the time or resources to tend a big garden, so we wondered: What if you bought your produce in season at a farmers market and preserved some of it for winter use?

[ FULL ARTICLE HERE ]

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