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Hey, you guys.

Welcome to this week's episode of the pantry chat,

food for thought. This week, we have a little bit of a different episode for you. This week,

I am here all by myself. And we're going to be talking about the seven steps of freeze drawing. We're going to be

covering a little bit about my journey about freeze drying and some really not so great mistakes

that I made along the line. So this is going to be a lot of fun. We're going to really dive in.

But to start off,

as always, a little bit of chit-chat, a little bit of what's going on around here on the homestead.

And for us right now here at Riverbend, we are really, really into the heart of harvest season. We are bringing in at least 20 gallons of green beans every single week right now, which means we are doing a lot

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