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We made those apple chips in the dehydrator, slicing up apples from a neighbour’s tree and saving the harvest. We plugged the dehydrator in outside, to reduce heat production indoors. Eight hours of drying time later, we have healthy food snacks for lunches.
Many homes do this kind of thing. It was all free aside from the electricity and the long-ago initial cost of the dehydrator. Russell Wangersky / Free Press If you have too much homegrown produce, you should be able to have it find its way to those in need.
According to recent coverage in the , Harvest Manitoba has commissioned a feasibility study looking into creating a larger-scale ‘food transformation centre.’ Their aim is to “turn produce destined for landfills into meals for people in need.” This is a fancy way to say that Harvest Manitoba needs to buy equipment so it can put up fresh food donations.
In old-fashioned terms, Harvest Manitoba would like to put up food for winter by perhaps exploring ways to can, preserve, or dehydrate more fresh food. Old-timers know, without doing a study, that putting by food for later at home saves lots.
