I made another batch of peach leather, this time not as a side project to canning peaches. Yield: one big mesh orange bag of windfalls makes five trays of peach leather. Remember to line the trays with the drying mesh and the parchment. The mesh orange bag is for selling ten pounds of oranges, but peaches are much denser than oranges because of ( Read more... )

So I gave up on the grapes ever completely ripening because the wildlife has discovered them and also the pvc pipe arbor I made has broken. We never got the August and September heat we have a right to expect (global warming doesn't mean local warming, except in the water). They were almost ripe. So I've got the crop in the dehydrator turning ( Read more... )