A couple episodes ago, I chatted with Jessica Spears from Three Rivers Homestead about how

you can put your dehydrator to work around the homestead, and it's a great alternative

if you're not ready to can quite yet, if you're not ready to do fermentation, or you don't

have a lot of freezer space, dehydrating is a wonderful option, but even though I've

owned a dehydrator for a long, long time, there's a whole aspect of dehydrating that

I have never even realized existed until now.

So today, we're going to be talking about how to make powders out of your fruits and vegetables.

And when I first heard of this, I was kind of perplexed as like, why would you do that?

What is the purpose?

But the more I have learned about this, I'm intrigued.

And this is an incredible way to use dehydrator, especially if you're short on pantry space.

I am thrilled to be joined by Darcy Baldwin, a self-described geek who started dehydrating

about 10 years ago when she needed to find ways to save money in her family's budget

and stop wasting food.

It has been a hobby that has snowballed into a blog, which is called the Purposeful

Pantry and her YouTube channel, and also a book with another on the way.

She also loves all thing geek from Narnia to astronomy to British mysteries, and Darcy

gave so much good info in this interview, grab your pen and paper, and let's talk about

how to dehydrate fruit and vegetable powders.

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