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Drying apples is a great way to preserve the fresh fall harvest. Here are three ways to dehydrate apples for winter food storage, including air-drying, oven drying, and using a food dehydrator.

3 Ways to Dehydrate Apples for Food Storage

No sunshine required to make these homemade sun dried tomatoes. Drying tomatoes is a great way to preserve the harvest and save storage space. 20 pounds of tomatoes will reduce down to about one pound of sun dried tomatoes.

Homemade Sun Dried Tomatoes

Old-fashioned Dilly Beans are zesty pickled string beans simply flavored with dill, garlic, and spicy pepper flakes.

Good Old-Fashioned Pickled Dilly Beans

Got peppers? Drying is an excellent way to preserve peppers. Dehydrating removes the moisture and concentrates the flavor and heat of the peppers.

3 Ways to Dry Peppers for Food Storage

Ah zucchini... It's the crop that just keeps on giving. Here are five ways to freeze zucchini so you can enjoy the harvest bounty well into winter.

5 Ways to Freeze Zucchini

Are your onions getting soft? It is easy to dehydrate onions so they last longer for food storage. Turn your onions into dehydrated onion flakes, minced dried onions, and onion powder.

How to Dehydrate Onions for Food Storage

Even if you don’t grow your own peppers, consider purchasing in bulk from local growers at your farmer’s market and preserve peppers to enjoy all year.

3 Ways to Preserve Peppers

Is your garden overflowing with zucchini? Learn the many ways you can preserve zucchini so you can enjoy the abundant harvest during the winter months

3 Easy Ways to Preserve Zucchini

Chicken stock is a must have pantry essential for many recipes, including soups, stews, gravies, and stir-fry. Skip the store bought cartons and make and can chicken stock instead.

How To Can Chicken Stock

Whether you grow and store your own potatoes, purchase in bulk from the farmer' market, or snag a great deal at the supermarket, a day of prep can fill your freezer full of potato French fries ready to bake or air fry quickly for meals.

How to Freeze Potato French Fries

This spiced apple jelly recipe livens up the plain apple flavor with some traditional pairings including lemon juice, cinnamon, cloves, and allspice.

Spiced Apple Jelly Recipe (No Added Pectin)

These sweet and tangy cucumber bread and butter pickles are perfect for burgers, sandwiches, or snacked right out of the jar.

Granny’s Bread and Butter Pickles Recipe

Canning roasted tomatillo salsa is a great way to preserve the abundance of tomatillos that the garden produces. Jars of tomatillo salsa verde come in handy for all your favorite Mexican dishes.

Roasted Tomatillo Salsa Verde for Canning

Whether you have a bumper crop in your garden or decided to buy in bulk, roasting and pressure canning chile peppers is a great way to preserve them.

Canning Diced Green Chile Peppers

Pressure canning dried beans is a frugal way to add to your food storage. Reduce the sodium and chemicals found in commercially canned beans by canning your own.

Canning Dried Beans

Make your own garlic powder by dehydrating and grinding garlic cloves. If you grow garlic or purchase in bulk and still have an abundance in storage come spring, it may be worth the effort to turn the excess into garlic powder before the cloves go bad.

Homemade Garlic Powder

Canning your own diced tomatoes is an easy way to preserve an abundance of ripe tomatoes quickly. Canned tomatoes are handy to use in chilies, soups, stews, and casseroles.

Canning Crushed or Diced Tomatoes

Canning salsa is a great way to preserve the abundant harvest to enjoy all year. Read on for tips to prepare and safely can salsa.

Tomato Salsa Recipe for Canning

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