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To: CottonBall

In a regular year, I may can 250 jars, mostly quarts but a fair amount of pints. Depending on if I get tomatoes and apples in quantity; DH usually picks a couple hundred pounds of peaches, a neighbor often lets us pick cherries and/or greengage plums, etc. And black berries - billions around here. But this last summer was a terrible year for all local fruit, even blackberries were few and awful, plus I had surgery and was in no condition to can, so I didn’t do much. Some years I’ve done more if boxes of tomatoes (for intance) came my way. In addition to plain canned tomatoes I make tomato chutney, apple chutney and can in pints. YUM.


1,125 posted on 12/17/2019 6:11:55 AM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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To: little jeremiah

There are manufactured solar food dehydrators.
https://www.amazon.com/Food-Pantrie-Solar-Dehydrator-Non-Electric/dp/B01C85N3QW

Or make your own. https://homesteadsurvivalsite.com/dehydrate-food-without-electricity/

There are many sites with diy plans for dehydrators that do not need electricity.


1,127 posted on 12/17/2019 6:18:08 AM PST by bgill
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To: little jeremiah

And I would love to see your storage room! Maybe that’ll be the topic of another week, how do we store all of our prepping supplies.


1,130 posted on 12/17/2019 6:52:23 AM PST by CottonBall ("The FBI meddled in the 2016 election" Jack Posobiec)
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