Preserving the Harvest: Drying Food for winter storage

Since my last post, where I wrote that we had found a home and things were moving forward for us to close and move in a couple of weeks, everything has fallen apart, well in the house realm that is. Working with banks and trying to buy a foreclosure is an interesting learning experience. Although I must admit that I would be very glad to be done with the "learning" aspect of this process. It turns out the bank who owned the foreclosure we were trying to buy decided to change their part of the agreed offer leaving us having to back out of the deal. We've been scrambling once again to find a place to live, now focusing on renting on a short term basis, since there is no longer enough time to buy a place before we move (which is in about 2 weeks). Finding a rental property is hard where we live. Well, it's hard if you don't want to spend a fortune or commit to a 12 month lease and you have pets. Both my husband and I are working towards not feeling overwhelmed with so many unknowns in our life at the moment. It's been and a hard and exhausting process. What we know is that we are going to trust in our Lord our God. We know He can give us the wisdom we need for making the right decisions and He can also provide us with the right place to live. So for now, I am packing, and scouring the internet for places to live and hoping that something opens up for us in the next day or so, so we at least can know whether we need a storage unit, if we need to sell more of our stuff, when we need to rent a check and all the other fun stuff that goes with moving. For those of you who are believers in Christ Jesus and our Holy Father in Heaven our Savior, please lift us up in your prayers.

Now, how about something that actually deals with food?!

Last weeks CSA box. Doesn't it look delicious and what amazing colors?!

This time of year I keep my eyes wide open for ways I can get fresh foods in bulk for an excellent price, so I can put it away for winter. I also put aside any extra food we don't or can't get through in our CSA box.