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I have been trying to contact her too, but no luck either.
I hope she is alright!
Xant

@Tinga wrote:

Doing a small batch of apples for the kiddos now. Bought a 9 tray Excalibur today ( don’t tell my husband)
Looking forward to really getting into it. Now the storing part LOL

we won’t tell!
X

@Vina8 wrote:

Congratulations on your Excalibur! I bought mine soon after that post in January and have used it a lot. I recently dried a bushel of apples from my parents’ orchard.

I am so sorry I didn’t look at the dates! Well, wonderful to hear that you are having fun with the dehydrater! How nice that your parents have a orchard!
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@Vina8 wrote:

Thanks, SciFi. I love that website and have bookmarked it. I also learned from reading about your experience and appreciate your sharing what worked and what didn’t. This is something I am definitely going to try.

Ldychef2k, your experience with dehydrators was very interesting and timely. A link on the dehydrate2store site led me…

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Shelli, lots of alternatives you can do:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Inexpensive_Food_Dehydrator_with_Recycled_Parts/” onclick=”window.open(this.href);return false
You can also search on that site for solar dehydrators.
One word of advice: don’t get dehydrating: a bug will bite you and you have yours running 24/7.
I know….
Xant

What a wonderful and interesting topic this is. I don’t know any one over here who is prepping. I did talk to someone recently who has food storage, but never uses it.
So I don’t talk about what I do, don’t feel the need to. What I did do was organizing food coops. That can be a very good way to get to know ppl at least who are interested in bulk…[Read more]

Of course we have a very market place in hydrophonic equipment…
here you can buy everything for homegrowing
https://www.telegrow.com/tienda/january-2010-special-offers/index.php/cPath/308?osCsid=9m518smbms8kaq097c01qq4tf2” onclick=”window.open(this.href);return false

guess it can also be used for herbs and lettuce? 😆
Xant

http://wibowhunters.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=processing&action=display&thread=289” onclick=”window.open(this.href);return false

lots of pages on canning deer meat. You are in for some fun!
Xant
ps if you become a rich and famous brand of up scale canned deer meat, please think of us sometimes;)) HAHAHAHAA

here they mention rillettes with other animals but you can always give it a try?
http://justcookit.blogspot.com/2008/11/home-charcuterie-part-one-making.html” onclick=”window.open(this.href);return false

@MTJoe wrote:

Great article, I have just got the green light from the state to go after five more one tail deer, and will want to can the meat, I am out of freezer space! I have a brand new pressure canner never used as the wife is scared of it, so it will become my domain. Add to that, I know what is in the meat, and where it came from, not like…

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I have been water bath canning for years now. I have to tell you I am looking for so many years now for information (and letting it sink in) about pressure canning and I am still learning. It is something not done in the Netherlands, I can even say Europe(!) so I have to rely on information from the US.
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This woman is amazing! I was dehydrating for a couple of years now, and thought I knew something, untill I saw those videos’. I am now of to buy a vaccum sealer mine isn’t as good as it should be (it is 6 in the morning and the shop is opening at 6.30)
I WANT THOSE CLOSETS!!!:)
I have some questions but I am pretty busy at the moment, will drop in…[Read more]

There were apples on sale last week so I bought a couple of kilo’s. I planned to can them for pie filling, but my kids wanted dried apple with cinnamon.. So I am now making them. I make little parts spray them with lemon juice and then cinnamon powder. I mix them with nuts and there you have our snacks.
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I bought the book, but I haven’t read it completely yet. I don’t eat meat for years now, not that I don’t like meat, but I don’t like the way the animals are treathed: like mass products in china. The book so far gave me another perspective. I’ll eat meat again, when I can raise the stock myself.
An interesting film about the mass production of…[Read more]

My goals are:
1. finding and moving to a small farm (rented)
2. learning to use my newly bought grain mill in bread baking and improve my sourdough bread baking
3. find out what pressure canner I need, import it, and learn how to pressure can
4. learning how to make cheese (got all the tools already)
5. improving pantry prepardness
6. working on…[Read more]