Drying is one of the oldest, easiest and cheapest methods of preserving food. Several fruits, vegetables and herbs can be stored this way with great success for later use in soup, stews and puddings. Fruit and vegetables that are dried and stored carefully retain most of their nutritional value. As…
Drying your tomatoes allows you to store them for up to a year. It is a clever way to add value to your harvest at a relatively low cost. Fleshy tomatoes with the least amount of juice works best for drying tomatoes. Long, egg shaped tomatoes are the ideal choice.…
Werner Swart, along with his partners, has developed a portable drying system for grain storage which allows him to rapidly and successfully dry grain and oil seed in silo bags. By drying and storing grain and oil seed in polyethylene silo bags, farmers are able to harvest sooner and thereby…
Valley Macadamia's Farmer of the Year, Bill Bales-Smith, has built a drying oven for less than K7 000 and it saves him about K200 000 in the drying costs of his macadamias. For most macadamia nut farmers, the cost of erecting and operating electric drying units is extremely high, or…
