I can’t sit at my desk longer than 30 minutes this morning without resisting the temptation to pop out to the back deck to check on the progress of my apple leather that I am trying to dry in the November sun. I can’t tell if it is working yet–there is condensation the glass of [...]
Read full post...I’m thrilled to report that the solar food dryer my dad built me last year for my birthday is on my roof and drying away. I’ve got a tray of organic strawberries shrivelling down into delicious dried pellets as I write. They’ve only been out there for two hours but the edges have already started [...]
Read full post...For my birthday this week, my dad gave me the ultimate locavore gift: a solar food dryer he’d made himself. Wow! I’ve wanted a solar food dryer for a long, long time (not quite as long as I’ve wanted a solar cooker). How cool it would be to harvest the local bounty of the Canadian [...]
Read full post...