Dave Freer asked me to talk a little about dehydrating - so here it is.

Dehydrating is one of my favourite ways of preserving the harvest for several reasons: it preserves most of the nutritional content (often destroyed in heated means of preserving, like bottling), you need add no sugar or vinegar (again, like bottling, or [...]

Borlotti beans in jar, money in the food bank.

And more tomatoes and zucchini sliced and in dehydrator.

Oh, wait for it, later today you will be getting some lovely pictures! Suddenly I have an (almost) working kitchen!! Come back in 8 hours or so …..

————— Later —————

First, the garden. I have not been neglecting it, but doing the best I can while under the weather. Thank you so [...]

Finally the kitchen is being rebuilt. Following are some pictures of the cabinets being put in - they are a little further advanced by now, but these pictures give the general idea. Note in the third picture the blind corner shelving unit - I have 3 blind corners and all have swank means to get [...]

Tradies have been working through the week, although from the photos there doesn’t appear to have been a huge amount of work done. Mostly the pantry has now been fitted out (although the sparky tells me they will need to take some cupboards out so he can wire!), the wiring all but done (save for [...]